Bug#887250: systemd should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Helmut

Am 14.01.2018 um 20:11 schrieb Helmut Grohne:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 236-3
> User: helmutg at debian.org
> Usertags: nonessentiale2fsprogs
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard
> installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit
> from such an option.  For getting there all packages that use e2fsprogs must be
> identified and gain a dependency on it as e2fsprogs currently is essential.
> 
> systemd was identified as potentially needing such a dependency,
> because it mentions tool names from e2fsprogs in the following files:
> 
> /bin/journalctl contains chattr. According to file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)
> /bin/systemd-tmpfiles contains chattr. According to file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)
> /lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-236.so contains chattr and debugfs. According to file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)

Given your other bug reports, it looks like chattr/lsattr should
probably be moved into another essential package then. It doesn't look
like those tools are ext? specific.




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