Bug#887250: systemd should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

[Helmut Grohne]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 09:07:58PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

This was discussed on d-devel. While these tools are not ext-specific,
their implementation is. Moving them to another package, does not
simplify bootstrap (i.e. the benefit of the whole dance is smaller). It
also means more effort. It may seem that very many packages were using
these tools, but that is not the case. Only 132 binary packages received
bug reports at all and the chattr/lsattr are only responsible for 36 of
them (false positives included). Thus I do not see the need for keeping
them essential.

Helmut