[Popcon-developers] Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

[Frans Pop]

On Saturday 17 July 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The obvious fix is to change popularity-contest to suggest instead of
> recommend, to avoid pulling in a MTA when popularity-contest is
> installed.  Cc to the maintainer list to see if that is an interesting
> alternative.

It's only obvious if there is no good reason to have exim4 as a Recommends 
for popcon. IMO the Recommends fits the policy requirements in this case.

> An alternative would be to change pkgsel/pre-pkgsel.d/90popcon to not
> install recommended packages.  Looking at the svn source, this seem to
> have be the current setting in svn since 2009-12-24 (uploaded as
> version 0.27).

So the issue is already fixed in daily built images.

> Not convinced it is a good idea to not install 
> recommended packages by default in d-i, thought, and suspect it is
> better to change the recommends for popularity-contest.

Recommended packages *are* installed by default. We're just making an 
exception in this case as discussed in [1].

Given that the issue is already resolved, I'm closing this report. There is 
no need for any change in popcon.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/02/msg00033.html