Re: upgrading bellini

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> writes:

> I intent to upgrade bellini at some point, maybe today or some time
> during the weekend.

> I just realized none of the services on bellini have a metapackage that
> lists their package dependencies[0].

> When we upgrade bellini we will remove any packages that are not
> glaringly obviously needed.  As such, if you have a list of packages
> that your service (mirror, popcon, lintian) depends on, do let us know.

> Likewise, if there's anything else d-a should be aware of please share.

Thanks for the heads-up!  I don't think there's anything special required
for Lintian except for the package dependencies for Lintian, but we'll
need the ones for the current Git version, which may not match exactly
what's in squeeze.  We'll also need all the Suggests.  So the short
version is:

  binutils
  binutils-multiarch
  bzip2
  diffstat
  dpkg-dev
  fakeroot
  file
  gettext
  intltool-debian
  libapt-pkg-perl
  libclass-accessor-perl
  libdigest-sha-perl
  libdpkg-perl
  libemail-valid-perl
  libhtml-parser-perl
  libipc-run-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl
  libtimedate-perl
  libtext-template-perl
  liburi-perl
  locales
  man-db
  perl
  unzip
  xz-utils

It's not required, but it's also convenient to be able to generate the
HTML version of the manual on bellini, which adds:

  docbook-utils
  docbook-xml

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>