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| Started by | Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> |
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| First post | 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100 |
| Last post | 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100 |
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Bug#1089532: gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100
| From | Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> |
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| Date | 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100 |
| Subject | Bug#1089532: gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0 |
| Message-ID | <JRq8W-eLOq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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Package: gzip Tags: patch Dear Maintainer(s), gzip depends on dpkg >= 1.15.4, which was uploaded in September 2009 and was part of Debian 4.0 Etch, released in 2010. dpkg is essential, and the required version has been satisfied for a long time as pre-Etch releases are all since long been EOL, so it can be safely dropped. Dropping the explicit and unnecessary dependency eases building a package-based minimal, read-only initrd with the maintainer scripts being ran at image build time, as we can install packages and then remove apt/dpkg using --root from outside without removing gzip, which is needed at runtime. Trivial patch attached. Thanks!
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