Installing fail2ban pulls python2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fail2ban (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial", when installing fail2ban using "apt install fail2ban", apt installs python2 as a "recommended" dependency, while it is actually not needed at all by fail2ban. This should be changed.
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
# apt install fail2ban
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython-stdlib libpython2.
Suggested packages:
mailx monit python-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fail2ban libpython-stdlib libpython2.
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