Bug#987615: Bug#985957: usrmerge has 47.3MB of dependencies

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 02:17:00PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 14:04, Ansgar <ansgar at 43-1.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:12:33 +0000 Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > I don't know what is the correct process to follow here. For example,
> > > could the 5.32 things be promoted from modules to perl-base?
> >
> > What gets included in the (essential) perl-base package is decided by
> > Debian.
> >
> > I think it would be a fair request to ask for usrmerge's dependencies
> > to be included there if we install usrmerge by default on upgrades to
> > covert existing systems.  The dependencies could probably be dropped
> > again for bookworm+1 (with perl-base having `Breaks: usrmerge (<< X)`
> > where `X` is the version of usrmerge depending on perl instead of perl-
> > base again).

Just a note that this #985957 is also #987615 (cc'd) on the perl side.

Now that bookworm development is open I'll see what we can do there.
-- 
Niko