[debian-lan-devel] Bug#887261: debian-lan-config: dependency should be fullfilled further up in the dependency chain

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Package: debian-lan-config
Followup-For: Bug #887261

Hi Helmut,

> We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard
> installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit
> from such an option.  For getting there all packages that use e2fsprogs must be
> identified and gain a dependency on it as e2fsprogs currently is essential.
>
> debian-lan-config was identified as potentially needing such a dependency,
> because it mentions tool names from e2fsprogs in the following files:
>
> /usr/share/debian-lan-config/fai/config/tests/Faitest.pm contains tune2fs. According to file it is a Perl scripttext executable
>
> Please investigate whether these cases are actually uses of a tool from
> e2fsprogs. Care has been taken to shrink the number of candidates as much as
> possible, but a few false positives will remain. After doing so, do one of the
> following:
>
>  * Add e2fsprogs to Depends.
>  * Add e2fsprogs to Recommends.
>  * Close this bug explaining why e2fsprogs is not used by this package.

e2fsprogs might be used in combination with FAI, but debian-lan-config
does not need this dependency, as in that case FAI will draw it in
(cf. #887208).

> Thanks for your help

Thanks you for taking care!

   Andi