[debhelper-devel] Bug#822423: Bug#822423: debhelper: is there any way to reduce the impact of the dh-autoreconf dependency?

[Niels Thykier]

Stephen Kitt:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20160403
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> With the introduction of the dependency from debhelper to
> dh-autoreconf, non-development systems with debhelper installed (in my
> case, because of equivs) suddenly end up pulling in the autotools
> suite and gcc. That’s “only” ~230MB but it seems unfortunate... It’s
> not directly relevant since the correct solution is to stop installing
> equivs, but many companies forbid installing gcc on servers. (And no,
> I’m not running testing on servers.)
> 
> Is there any way of reducing the dependency’s impact? Or is it not
> worth it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> [...]

Hi,

I am open to suggestions for how to solve it, but at first glance I do
not see one (without neutering compat/10's auto-enabling of dh_autoreconf).

Thanks,
~Niels



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