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

[Marco d'Itri]

On Aug 15, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> > > 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.
I see no reason to move the usrmerge dependencies to perl-base: usrmerge 
is supposed to be installed, run and then removed again.
If something is moved to perl-base then it will use space on every 
Debian system.
usrmerge being installed DOES NOT mean that the system has been 
converted to merged-/usr, so there is no reason at all to keep it around 
after it has been used.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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