Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

[Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>]

Hi Andy

> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 9:14 PM
> From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?
>
> Stella (and others)
>
> This is apparently a long standing bug from pango1.0
>
> Debian bug #565500
>
> and has been outstanding for a decade or so.

And why has the decade-old bug not been resolved, may I ask? Won't it pose a security risk such as in escalation of root privileges?

> Thai poses interesting font,
> formatting and display properties - if you're not Thai, it doesn't matter
> to you, but, as you can see it's fairly well embedded into various
> libraries.

I wonder who embed Thai fonts and code in the first place..

> It's about as relevant to you as the fact that the Debian installer supports
> several languages: if you don't use them in install and set up the locales
> they're essentially irrelevant but are there for the convenience of people
> who need them.

Indeed, I don't use non-English language versions during install and/or set up Thai-specific locales but libthai still ends up in my installed system.

My concern is whether libthai poses a security risk to Debian users.

Best regards.

Stella