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

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:11:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> 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.

My suggestion in #987615 (which I also copied to usrmerge at pdo, being
unaware of #985957) is to introduce separate packages of the usrmerge
dependencies, and limit their dependencies to perl-base only. This does
not grow perl-base and can be phased out later, so it does not impose
a permanent cost on everybody.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org