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Mmm, apt-ftparchive is pretty useful for cooking up repos for "in-house" distros (which we certainly thought was serious...) but those tools are already a separ

by eichin 11mo ago

Mmm, apt-ftparchive is pretty useful for cooking up repos for "in-house" distros (which we certainly thought was serious...) but those tools are already a separate binary package (apt-utils) so factoring them out at the source level wouldn't be particularly troublesome. (I was going to add that there are also nicer tools that have turned up in the last 10 years but the couple of examples I looked at depend on apt-utils, oops)

mikepurvis 11mo ago
apt-utils comes from the same top-level source package though: https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt I know you can make configure-time decisions based on the architecture and ship a leaner apt-utils on a legacy platform, but it's not as obvious as "oh yeah that thing is fully auxiliary and in a totally different codebase".