Bug#1025657: init-system-helpers: Depends lead to full perl installation

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: reassign -1 debootstrap 1.0.123+deb11u1
Control: fixed -1 1.0.128
Control: retitle -1 debootstrap: installs usrmerge dependencies even when pulling in usr-is-merged

On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 11:30:35 +0100 Bastian Germann <bage at debian.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:29:45 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
wrote:
> > > init-system-helpers depends on "usrmerge | usr-is-merged". This
in
> > turn depends on libfile-find-rule-perl
> > > which currently results in a complete perl installation for
> > `debootstrap --variant=minbase`.
> > 
> > That should install usr-is-merged, which has no dependencies. How
did
> > you run debootstrap exactly? Which version?
> 
> I ran 1.0.123+deb11u1 on amd64 bullseye which is not usr-merged.
> But I did not provide --no-merged-usr for the debootstrap call.

There's an issue with the extra dependencies being installed in the
version in stable. It is fixed in bookworm and backports - if you
install from bullseye-backports it should stop happening.

I'll try and get that in proposed-updates.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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