[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#807488: sbuild-update: please run -d with --no-install-recommends

[Adam Borowski]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.66.0-5
Severity: wishlist

Hi!
As per apt's defaults, whenever a package that's a part of the sbuild chroot
gains a new Recommends:, that recommendation will be installed.  This
default makes sense for regular apt uses outside of sbuild, but in sbuild's
context, it goes against the aim of a minimal chroot.  It'll allow missing
build-dependencies to sneak through unnoticed, and makes fresh chroots
differ from updated ones.

Thus, please make sbuild-update pass --no-install-recommends to apt.