[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#592902: gnupg: please provide additional binary packages without readline dependency

[Daniel Leidert]

tags 592902 + moreinfo
retitle 592902 [DEBIAN] gnupg: please provide additional binary packages without readline dependency
thanks

Am Freitag, den 13.08.2010, 21:14 +0200 schrieb Carsten Hey:

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> the dependency on libreadline6 which depends on readline-common costs
> about 450 kb of disk space on minimal Debian installations (given that
> apt is still installed).
> 
> Please consider building additional binary packages without the
> dependency on libreadline.  Since dpkg depends on libbzip2 anyway adding
> --without-bzip2 would not save any additional disk space.  Due the size
> of the binaries, adding -Os to CFLAGS seems to be appropriate for
> packages meant to be tiny replacements.

What is the rationale behind this request (in general just saving 450 kb
is IMO not a compelling argument to create a new package)? We usually
don't build a dozen binary packages of the same source just to fulfill
all user wishes of possible library combinations. Will this be useful
for more users than just you or saying it in other words: why don't you
build and use this variant locally?

Regards, Daniel