[Popcon-developers] Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 09:56+0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> The obvious fix is to change popularity-contest to suggest instead of
> recommend, to avoid pulling in a MTA when popularity-contest is
> installed.  Cc to the maintainer list to see if that is an interesting
> alternative.

Hunh. I wasn't aware that popcon could submit reports via e-mail in
addition to HTTP.

Recommending an MTA in light of that doesn't seem unreasonable, in the
abstract. But given that an MTA is useless for popcon's purposes if it
is not configured, and that HTTP submission has a good chance of working
"out of the box," I'm inclined to think downgrading that to a suggestion
would be sensible.

> An alternative would be to change pkgsel/pre-pkgsel.d/90popcon to not
> install recommended packages.  Looking at the svn source, this seem to
> have be the current setting in svn since 2009-12-24 (uploaded as
> version 0.27).  Not convinced it is a good idea to not install
> recommended packages by default in d-i, thought, and suspect it is
> better to change the recommends for popularity-contest.

Yes, I see that... what is it now, the --no-recommends switch is broken?

What source package do these files go into, anyway? Google pointed me to
the d-i.alioth.debian.org site, but if I do "apt-get source debian-
installer", there's nothing like this in there. (I'd like to verify that
the current installer is using the same revision of this script we're
seeing in SVN.)