[debian-mysql] Bug#875708: [mytop] missing libconfig-inifiles-perl

[Ondřej Surý]

severity 875708 important
thank you

mytop is a minor script and there's easy workaround, so I am setting this
as important. And I will fix this in next mariadb-10.1 update in unstable
and stable.

Also please not that it's the maintainer of the package who makes the
ultimate decision on the package severity.

Ondrej.

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 at 15:03 Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian at jff-webhosting.net>
wrote:

> severity 875708 serious
> thanks
>
> Hallo Daniel,
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.10.2017, 21:17 +0200 schrieb Daniel Baumann:
> > severity 875708 normal
> > thanks
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this hardly qualifies as a serious - not everybody is using mytop and
> > mytop is not a core functionality of the mariadb-client-10.1 package.
> > pulling in libconfig-inifiles-perl unconditionally on all systems is
> > thus unecessary bloat.
> >
> [...]
>
> its not hardly, its real. Mytop can't work without libconfig-inifiles-
> perl. So it must by declare as with Depends. From [1]:
>
> [qoute]
> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required
> for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
> functionality.
> [/quote]
>
>
> And a missing dependency is an RC-Bug. From[2]:
>
> [quote]
> serious
> is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must"
> or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release
> manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.
> [/quote]
>
> > if at all, libconfig-inifiles-perl should rather be in recommends, not
> > depends. imho better suited in suggests only though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> >
>
> CU
> Jörg
>
> [1]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends
> [2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html#severities
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