Bug 56852 - remove/reduce dependencies on rarely used Debian packages in UCS 5.2
Summary: remove/reduce dependencies on rarely used Debian packages in UCS 5.2
Status: NEW
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Product: UCS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security updates
Version: UCS 5.2
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: UCS 5.2-0-errata
Assignee: UCS maintainers
QA Contact: UCS maintainers
URL: https://git.knut.univention.de/univen...
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Reported: 2023-11-20 12:56 CET by Arvid Requate
Modified: 2024-12-03 14:48 CET (History)
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Description Arvid Requate univentionstaff 2023-11-20 12:56:34 CET
We should check if we can remove/reduce the dependencies on the following packages to get them off the list of maintained packages:

* qemu

* phonon-backend-vlc, vlc and related dependencies: exiv2, sdl-image1.2, faad2, libopenmpt, openjpeg2

* php7.x (php7.3 in 5.0-3) etc

They are the most expensive to maintain, currently (judging from 4.4-9).
Comment 2 Florian Best univentionstaff 2023-11-20 15:41:44 CET
UCS 5.2 doesn't contain PHP 7.x but PHP 8.2
Comment 3 Arvid Requate univentionstaff 2024-06-07 15:32:33 CEST
* We should check that base/univention-errata-level/maintained-packages.txt is up to date for 5.2-0

* We should check that packages not on that list are not installed after system setup (or at least removable without tearing down essential metapackages). E.g. univention-management-console-module-setup pulls in a couple of x11 libs. If we could uninstall that reliably then we wouldn't need to maintain them forever at runtime. univention-list-installed-unmaintained-packages should not show anything on a vanilla UCS system (with supported metapackages installed, like univention-samba4 or univention-printserver etc.)

* We may want to remove emacs-gtk from the Recommends of univention-role-common

* printer-driver-foo2zjs pulls in tk8.6 and a lot of trailing packages via "Recommends: tk". Maybe we can trim that down too.