On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 15:31:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could someone who has the time to put together a script for this check to > see whether this is actually true? (Namely, that the only thing in > required are essential packages and their dependencies.) > As far as I can tell the following packages are Priority: required but not Essential: yes (in sid/amd64/main), or (pre-)depended on by an Essential package (possibly recursively): - debconf-i18n, liblocale-gettext-perl, libtext-charwidth-perl, libtext-iconv-perl, libtext-wrapi18n-perl: since debconf 1.5.39 -i18n is only a Recommends. Could probably be downgraded to important? - mawk: one of the alternatives for base-files' Pre-Depends, so actually pseudo-essential - xz-utils: Jonathan covered this Cheers, Julien
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