Bug#225268: glabels tries to use scrollkeeper-update in postinst

Marc Wilson Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>, 225268@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:26:32 -0800


Package: glabels
Version: 1.93.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Glabels attempts to use scrollkeeper-update at line 8 of its postinst.
This binary is part of the scrollkeeper package, however glabels does
not declare a dependency against scrollkeeper.

As a request... please don't make glabels require scrollkeeper.
Unfortunately, most Debian-packaged GTK2 applications are Gnome-ified.
Since a Gnome install would normally contain scrollkeeper, would it be
enough to test for it, and register documentation with it if it's there,
rather than blindly requiring it?

Many of us users want to use these GTK2 applications, and many of us
have zero use for Gnome.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux rei 2.4.23 #2 Mon Dec 1 15:08:45 PST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages glabels depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.3-4      The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.2-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.2-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.1-13     generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-2    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 2.0.1-6      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-4      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-1      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0          2.4.2-1      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0        2.4.2-1      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-5    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-3.1   GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.2-1.1  Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.3-1      GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                       4.2.1-14     X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

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