Bug#670229: gnuplot-x11: gnuplot-qt pulls in several MB of libqt4*, please move into its own package

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gnuplot-x11
Version: 4.6.0-5
Severity: important

Hello,

I have been happily using gnuplot-x11 with the wxt terminal. With today's
upgrade to gnuplot 4.6.0-5, the new qt terminal has been enabled, which pulls
in a whole lot of libqt4* packages. However, I am not going to ever use the qt
erminal; I am a GNOME user and glad that I did not have to install the qt
libraries by some weird package dependencies so far.

I think it would be only fair to install the qt-enabled gnuplot flavour into
its own "gnuplot-qt" package. The gnuplot-x11 package could recommend this
package, but it should still be possible to install gnuplot without the whole
bunch of libqt4* packages, just like it was in the past.

Cheers,
Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnuplot-x11 depends on:
ii  gnuplot-nox     4.6.0-5
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  libcairo2       1.10.2-7
ii  libedit2        2.11-20080614-3
ii  libgcc1         1:4.7.0-3
ii  libgd2-xpm      2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0    2.32.0-4
ii  liblua5.1-0     5.1.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.30.0-1
ii  libqt4-network  4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqt4-svg      4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqtcore4      4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqtgui4       4:4.7.4-3
ii  libstdc++6      4.7.0-3
ii  libwxbase2.8-0  2.8.12.1-7
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0   2.8.12.1-7
ii  libx11-6        2:1.4.4-4

gnuplot-x11 recommends no packages.

gnuplot-x11 suggests no packages.

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