Bug#410418: includes dependencies of excluded packages on the cd, making netinst huge

tags 410418 pending
thanks

Triggered by the patch recently sent to the d-cd list by Petter and a few discussions with Steve, I've just committed a patch that reduces the size of images again.

Instead of including _all_ alternative dependencies, debian-cd will now always include only the first (preferred) alternative dependency. This still means that, e.g. if different packages have alternatives in a different order, multiple alternatives may get included, but it does get rid of the most annoying ones and also allows APT to select the best option at install time in more complicated cases.

I've checked the netinst and first 2 full CDs for i386. The netinst is down to 140MB (from 175). CD1 gains a number of openoffice packages and CD2 gains some packages from l10n tasks.

The change did mean that console-{data,common,tools} no longer got included automatically, so those are now included in generate_di+k_list.

There may possibly be regressions for other architectures.

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