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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 20/04/2020 à 22:32, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> 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.

ok, I will fix that in the next upload!

Cheers

S