On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 06:52:42PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > The Linux image packages needs to do some modifications to core > configuration files like fstab in the future to allow newer kernels to > work. To do this and the planned further extension I intend to make all > linux image packages depend on python. I agree with Manoj that it's better to have this done centrally in the maintainer scripts of a single package, on which the linux-image packages can depend. Among other things, this prevents local modifications from being lost if a user adds non-UUID-based fstab entries after the UUID conversion was first done. > The python package is already part of the standard system via the > priority, so for most people this will not make any difference. However > there was concerns about the size from the embedded people, so I > consider to restrict that to python-minimal. python-minimal is an artifact inherited from the Ubuntu packaging, where the package is Essential: yes and python is Priority: important. Nothing should depend on python-minimal except for python itself, in Debian *or* in Ubuntu; to do so is contrary to the express wishes of python upstream. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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