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Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential



On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details
> are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential,
> packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes
> non-essential, such dependencies become required. A lot of packages that
> use fdisk have since added the relevant dependency (see `apt rdepends
> fdisk`). To fix the remaining packages, I intend to perform a mass bug
> filing.
> 
> I intend to use the following text as a mail template.

cool & thanks for your work on this!


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	Holger, co-maintainer of an affected package

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