Bug#958127: Please don't have a hard Depends on binfmt-support

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre at debian.org
Sat Apr 18 20:32:19 BST 2020


Hello,

Le 18/04/2020 à 20:56, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> Package: llvm-11-runtime
> Version: 1:11~++20200123111717+04fd2041561-1~exp1
> Severity: normal
>
> (This bug applies to all of the versioned llvm-runtime packages.)
>
> Please consider dropping the hard Depends on binfmt-support, and
> changing it to a Suggests. Having an interpreter installed for LLVM IR
> does not necessarily imply wanting to automatically execute LLVM IR
> using binfmt-support, and in fact seems like a relatively uncommon use
> case compared to the primary usage of llvm-runtime. llvm-runtime gets
> pulled in by any installation of llvm.

To make sure I understand, it is "just" to remove one dependency?

(which is, afaik, quite small)

thanks!

Cheers
S



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