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

[Stephen Kitt]

Le 24/04/2016 23:19, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> If you don't have gcc installed, then you don't have build-essential
> installed.  So why do you care about installing debhelper?

equivs depends on debhelper — before this change, installing equivs 
didn't pull in autotools and gcc, now it does. alien is another 
reverse-dependency of debhelper which wouldn't normally require 
autotools and gcc; likewise customdeb, ecaccess (I'm not sure why, given 
its description I wouldn't expect it to...) and environment-modules 
(likewise).

Regards,

Stephen