Bug#462983: gnome-desktop-environment: should not depend on libgnome2-perl

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Tue Jan 29 09:29:54 UTC 2008


Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 18:37 +0000, brian m. carlson a écrit :
> Package: gnome-desktop-environment
> Version: 1:2.20.2.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> AFAICT, gnome-desktop-environment depends on libgnome2-perl for no 
> reason.  This package contains no actual data, and therefore it cannot 
> be a necessary dependency.  I also don't see dependencies on the 
> corresponding python packages, so it cannot be for developers.
> 
> Therefore, I would request that you please remove this dependency on 
> libgnome2-perl.

This dependency is here for a good reason: it brings the "gnome" debconf
front-end, which is required by GNOME-based package managers to ask
questions with the correct toolkit.

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