[debhelper-devel] Bug#822423: Bug#822423: debhelper: is there any way to reduce the impact of the dh-autoreconf dependency?

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20160403
> Severity: wishlist

> With the introduction of the dependency from debhelper to
> dh-autoreconf, non-development systems with debhelper installed (in my
> case, because of equivs) suddenly end up pulling in the autotools
> suite and gcc. That’s “only” ~230MB but it seems unfortunate... It’s
> not directly relevant since the correct solution is to stop installing
> equivs, but many companies forbid installing gcc on servers. (And no,
> I’m not running testing on servers.)

If you don't have gcc installed, then you don't have build-essential
installed.  So why do you care about installing debhelper?

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