Ubuntu
aptdaemon package

Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

Bug #1213920 reported by Vasco Alves
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aptdaemon (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

aptdaemon's package as it stands recommends lintian. This means that lintian gets installed by default in Ubuntu, and any flavours that use Firefox by default, as Ubufox depends on aptdaemon, OR that install the ubuntu-drivers-common packages by default, which I image is most of them. Lintian pulls a load of perl dependencies with it that are not used for anything else. Downgrading the recomment of lintian to a suggest would obviate this; anyone who knows what lintian is knows enough to install it, and it's not something the average user (or even a power user who does not develop Debian packages) needs to have installed by default.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: [Bug 1213920] [NEW] Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

Litian is used to make assumptions about the quality of third party
packages that e.g. have been downloaded from the Internet by the user.
So it is not used as a developer tool in this context.

We could argue if ubuntu-desktop should depend on lintian instead of
aptdaemon itself. But which flavour would like to skip this feature?
There is optionally the posibillity to disable the installation of
recommends if you want to have a low system size.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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