Re: fuse-udeb unused? (make fuse not key)

Hallo Cyril,

* Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> [240813 20:56]:
> Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> (2024-08-13):
> > src:fuse (fuse 2.x) currently builds a udeb. Because of how the set of
> > key packages are calculated, this makes fuse automatically part of the
> > key package set.
> > 
> > Given fuse3 has existed for a long time, maybe we could start removing
> > fuse in the next release cycle. For that, it would be great if fuse
> > itself would not be key anymore.
> > 
> > Could you confirm fuse-udeb is not needed by d-i, except for
> > debian-edu, and if fuse-udeb were unavailable, that would not be
> > relevant for d-i for forky (and maybe trixie)?
> 
> Having a quick look around (with a focus mainly on the set of packages
> debian-boot@ maintains), it doesn't seem to be referenced. Neither are
> the files it ships. I'm going to assume it would be feasible to get
> fuse3 to build/ship those files if they ended up being needed in some
> way?

I believe fuse3(-udeb) already ships the relevant files
(fusermount3, mount.fuse3). Maybe they will need a symlink from
fusermount, mount.fuse, if necessary.

> Beware of libfuse2-udeb though, which is listed by grub-mount-udeb in
> its Depends.

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out.
Seems like in unstable this is already replaced by libfuse3-3-udeb.

> Lastly, you mentioned debian-edu but didn't seem to have cc'ed them.

CC'ed now!

debian-edu: do you actively need fuse2? If not, could you please
drop it? At least the udeb for now.

Chris