Bug#482996: gnome-core: gnome-core depends on scrollkeeper

[Antal K]

Package: gnome-core
Severity: normal

Please consider removing dependency of gnome-core on scrollkeeper.

It appears to have been introduced at:
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gnome-core (1.4.0.6-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * All packages should depends on scrollkeeper (>= 0.3.5) (Closes:
#139135)

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:24:34
+0100

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which points to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139135

However it causes problems for some users:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scrollkeeper/+bug/164819


/usr/share/doc/scrollkeeper/README.Debian suggests:
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You should NOT depend on scrollkeeper.
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Thank you
   K Antal


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-proposed'), (500,
'hardy-backports'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash