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

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 09:32:19PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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)

I'm not primarily concerned with the size of the dependency, but rather,
with the associated code that gets run as a result of installing it. I
don't want that enabled automatically just because I installed an LLVM
toolchain.