[pkg-cinnamon] Doubts about some dependencies cinnamon comparing with upstream

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 05/06/2014 14:39, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 05/06/2014 13:57, Maximiliano Curia ha scritto:
>> ¡Hola Fabio!
>>
>> El 2014-06-05 a las 13:01 +0200, Fabio Fantoni escribió:
>>> On build-dep I saw libwnck-dev on upstream missed on debian, is not 
>>> needed
>>> and correct?
>> libwnck-dev is an old part of gnome2, I think that's a left over from 
>> the
>> original package cinnamon is based on.
>>
>>> I also saw some build-deps that debian have but missed upstream on 
>>> which I
>>> have no certainties with a quick check:
>>> libecal1.2-dev, libfolks-dev, libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-dev, 
>>> libmozjs185-dev,
>>> libtelepathy-glib-dev, libtelepathy-logger-dev, libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev,
>>> libgl1-mesa-dev
>>> are all needed for build on "clean basic system" and should be added 
>>> also
>>> upstream?
>> I don't remember each one of these, libmozjs185-dev was need for cjs. 
>> There
>> is a script in devscripts called dpkg-genbuilddeps that can be useful 
>> to check
>> if the build dependencies can be reduced. But, you need to be sure 
>> that after
>> reducing the build dependencies you are not removing some optional 
>> feature.
>> So, read the build log carefully, and test the package before and after
>> reducing the build dependencies.
>
> I'll check this weekend if I'll have free time.
>
>>
>>> About cinnamon package depends:
>>> - python-opencv on upstream is dependency but on debian recently 
>>> added only
>>> as suggest, why? I think can be good add it as dependency instead.
>> If installed, when the user tries to set a picture for her profile a 
>> new button
>> appears that allows her to take a picture with the webcam. So, it's 
>> not worth
>> a hard dependency.
>
> ok
>
>>
>>> - metacity and gnome-panel|tint2 are dependencies on upstream but 
>>> not on
>>> debian, seemunnecessary dependenciesto remove in the upstream, right?
>> I think they are left over of the old package.
>>
>>> - upstream have these additional recommends: gnome-themes-standard and
>>> gnome-terminal, can be useful or not?
>> gnome-terminal | x-terminal-emulator
>>
>> Can be useful,
>
> added
>
>>   not sure about gnome-themes-standard
>
> I'll check better probably this weekend.

On my "minimal tentative" test the only theme present and used by 
cinnamon is from gnome-themes-standard (installed as dependece or 
recommend of something other), so seem needed until cinnamon-theme or 
other theme package will be added.

>
>>
>>> - upstream on provides have also notification-daemon, is correct and 
>>> should
>>> be added also on debian?
>> Ups, yes, that should be added.
>
> added
>
>>
>>> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.
>> It will get better with time and practice, but there is no need to 
>> apologize
>> on every mail.
>>
>> Thanks for reviewing this.
>>
>
>


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