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Bug#1089532: gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0

From Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1089532: gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0
Date 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100
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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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Bug#1089532: gzip: drop versioned dependency satisfied since Debian 4.0 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-12-08 15:10 +0100

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