Bug#606221: Downgrade gcc dependency to recommends - Or: What's the gcc dependency for?

[Daniel Leidert]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.199
Severity: wishlist

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pbuilder depends on gcc, so it pulls in a compiler on a system, where I don't
want to have a compiler for everybody. But why does it depend on gcc? There
is no gcc dependency for (c)debootstrap like stated in the changelog entry for
0.10. Further the gcc dependency had been removed in version 0.187. There is
no information about why it has been re-added nor when? Can this dependency
please be dropped (fortunately already for squeeze) or downgraded?

Regards, Daniel


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (560, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.7      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.37     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   3.4.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.26     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                          1.12-2.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.69    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.5-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.7.4p4-5  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)

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