linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/9] debian: drop lvm2 from the recommends line

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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:57:29 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] debian: drop lvm2 from the recommends line

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:02:11PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If the user doesn't intend to use lvm2, and it's not installed,
> installing e2fsprogs shouldn't drag it (and all of its dependencies)
> into the system.
> 
> Addresses-Debian-Bug: 924275
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

--D

> ---
>  debian/control | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index 1bb8adb15..e454687f9 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ XB-Important: yes
>  Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libblkid1, libuuid1
>  Multi-Arch: foreign
>  Suggests: gpart, parted, fuse2fs, e2fsck-static
> -Recommends: e2fsprogs-l10n, lvm2
> +Recommends: e2fsprogs-l10n
>  Architecture: any
>  Description: ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities
>   The ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems are successors of the original ext
> -- 
> 2.19.1
>