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Bug#139320: marked as done (dpkg: dpkg-deb does not dynamically link libz)



On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:50:47PM +1000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

Err? WTF happened there? I wrote that, as the Sender: and signature
indicate, not Wichert. How fucked up.

> 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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