Bug#738326: marked as done (live-build installs extra packages (suggests or based on source package instead of binary))
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has caused the Debian Bug report #738326,
regarding live-build installs extra packages (suggests or based on source package instead of binary)
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Package: live-build
Version: 3.0.5-1
Severity: normal
live-build is adding gnuplot to my images even though no package in Depends or Recommends for gnuplot is in package-lists nor is even being installed via apt-get.
These Depends: on gnuplot
battery-stats
collectl-utils
guasssum
gretl
libraphics-gnuplitif-perl
libsvm-tools
plotdrop
python-gnuplot
ruby-gnuplot
splat
tsung
wims
yacas
yade
These Recommends: gnuplot
adun.app
education-mathematics
fityk
funkload
gcx
gpsprune
rheolef
science-nanoscale-physics
science-viewing
tablix
However not only are none of the packages in any of my lists, not one of them end up in my image. Nor is gnuplot in any of my lists. Therefore gnuplot is being pulled in incorrectly.
I am installing
amanda-client
which Suggests: gnuplot
The other possibility is that occurs to me is that I may have a package in my image who's *source* package has a package that Depends: or Recommends: gnuplot.
In any event the current behaviour is wrong, as I do not specify gnuplot and *no* package that *ought* to be pulling in gnuplot is in my image. I even purged the cached in case the issue was a bug that pulled in packages if they were previously downloaded. Same issue.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages live-build depends on:
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.9
ii debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1
Versions of packages live-build recommends:
ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1
ii gnu-fdisk 1.2.4-3.1
ii live-boot-doc 3.0.1-1
ii live-config-doc 3.0.23-1
ii live-manual 1:3.0.2-1
ii live-manual-epub [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
ii live-manual-html [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
ii live-manual-odf [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
ii live-manual-pdf [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
ii live-manual-txt [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
Versions of packages live-build suggests:
ii debian-keyring 2013.04.21
ii dosfstools 3.0.13-1
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
ii git 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1
ii gpgv 1.4.12-7+deb7u3
ii loadlin 1.6f-1
ii memtest86 4.0s-1
ii memtest86+ 4.20-1.1
ii mtd-utils [mtd-tools] 1:1.5.0-1
ii mtools 4.0.17-1
ii parted 2.3-12
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.2-5
ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1
ii syslinux 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
ii uuid-runtime 2.20.1-5.3
ii win32-loader 0.7.4.7+deb7u1
pn xorriso <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
live-build does not install gnuplot on its own, rather, it calls apt to
install the packages you specified (directly or indirectly) in the
package lists.
now, if one of the packages in the package lists depends or recommends
gnuplot, then gnuplot gets installed. if you want to know why gnuplot
was pulled into your image if you didn't specify it directly, use
something like debtree to analyze the whole dependency tree of your
package list.
also, you might want to consider disabling automatic installation of
recommended packages (live-build has a switch for that).
unrelated to that, there's no bug in here, we just call apt and apt
behaves as told.
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