Re: MBF: make fdisk non-essential

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 12/24/19 1:03 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details
> are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential,
> packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes
> non-essential, such dependencies become required. A lot of packages that
> use fdisk have since added the relevant dependency (see `apt rdepends
> fdisk`). To fix the remaining packages, I intend to perform a mass bug
> filing.
> 
> I intend to use the following text as a mail template.
> [...]

Thanks for this useful work. Everything which can make the minimal base
install smaller is a good thing.

Do you already have a list of affected package?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)