From helmut at subdivi.de  Sun Jan 14 19:10:57 2018
From: helmut at subdivi.de (Helmut Grohne)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:10:57 +0100
Subject: [Debootloaders-miboot] Bug#887184: rsrce should depend on e2fsprogs
	explicitly
Message-ID: <20180114191056.GA19277@alf.mars>

Package: rsrce
Version: 0.2.2
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: nonessentiale2fsprogs

Dear maintainer,

We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard
installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit
from such an option.  For getting there all packages that use e2fsprogs must be
identified and gain a dependency on it as e2fsprogs currently is essential.

rsrce was identified as potentially needing such a dependency,
because it mentions tool names from e2fsprogs in the following files:

/usr/bin/rsrce contains chattr. According to file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)

Please investigate whether these cases are actually uses of a tool from
e2fsprogs. Care has been taken to shrink the number of candidates as much as
possible, but a few false positives will remain. After doing so, do one of the
following:

 * Add e2fsprogs to Depends.
 * Add e2fsprogs to Recommends.
 * Close this bug explaining why e2fsprogs is not used by this package.

Once e2fsprogs drops the "Essential: yes" flag, this bug will be upgraded to RC
severity. Please note that lintian will warn about such a dependency before
lintian 2.5.56.

Thanks for your help

Helmut


From andreas at fatal.se  Tue Jan 23 23:40:06 2018
From: andreas at fatal.se (Andreas Henriksson)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:40:06 +0100
Subject: [Debootloaders-miboot] Bug#887184: rsrce should depend on e2fsprogs
	explicitly
In-Reply-To: <20180114191056.GA19277@alf.mars>
References: <20180114191056.GA19277@alf.mars> <20180114191056.GA19277@alf.mars>
Message-ID: <20180123234006.oj62u3ddyglmig5w@fatal.se>

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 08:10:57PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Package: rsrce
[...]
> /usr/bin/rsrce contains chattr. According to file it is a ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)
[...]

This match seems to come from:
https://sources.debian.org/src/rsrce/0.2.2/command.c/#L370

Looking at the hooked up cmd_chattr function it doesn't seem to have
anything to do with (launching the) e2fsprogs chattr program.

My conclusion is that this bug report can likely just be closed.

Would be great to hear the maintainers view on this.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson