Bug#935936: openssh-client should not depend on runit-helper
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:35:52AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> openssh-client 1:8.0p1-5 introduces a dependency on runit-helper. As the
> *client* doesn't contain any runit script, it should not pull in any
> such dependency. I'd guess that the dependency got added to every binary
> package built from the openssh source package, rather than only to the
> relevant binary package.
Thanks - fixing.
> (The server really shouldn't have that dependency, either, on platforms
> that don't have runit installed, but that's a separate problem. Is there
> any particular reason runit-helper couldn't just become a dependency of
> runit, and then handle all installed packages when you install runit?)
That would be something to bring up with the dh-runit maintainers. But
fortunately it's a tiny package with no dependencies.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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