Bug#139320: marked as done (dpkg: dpkg-deb does not dynamically link libz)
Wichert wrote:
> Previously Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > Also, given the dependencies on c++ and ncurses already, adding libz which
> > dozens of packages depend on seems like a trivial addition.
> The dependencies of dpkg itself are minimal and do not include c++ and
> ncurses. [...]
> This change was made on purpose to make sure that dpkg will be
> useable on broken systems where libz might not be working correctly
> and to make it easier to bootstrap a system.
Not depending on libz doesn't make it any easier to bootstrap a system,
you already get all the complexity just by needing libc. (Either by
requiring you to unpack the libs without dpkg first somehow, or by
requiring you to have appropriate libraries in the host system)
Cheers,
aj, debootstrap author
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