golang-docker-credential-helpers is unneeded dep

[Aidan Hunt]

Not sure why this is a dependency of docker-compose, it isn't mentioned in upstream install instructions, which just ships a binary: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/#install-compose. And it isn't a dependency on Debian either: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/docker-compose

[Aidan Hunt (aidanh010)]

see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37916 for the problem caused by this dependency chain

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

It is a dependency in Debian too.

docker-compose depends on python-docker which depends on python-dockerpycreds which depends on golang-docker-credential-helpers

You can check the requirements.txt for those packages but they all look correct.
For dockerpycreds, the README says that "the docker-credential executable for the platform must be installed on the user's system."

Since these packages are maintained in Debian, please consider filing a Debian bug if there is an issue here. You can try the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs

I'm closing this bug since it looks like the dependency is correct.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

https://github.com/shin-/dockerpy-creds