Bug#563712: Cannot remove Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, Rhythmbox without removing Gnome

Paul Taylor jenningsthecat at yahoo.ca
Mon Jan 4 19:13:40 UTC 2010


Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.28+3

System: Debian Squeeze testing, GNOME 2.28.2, kernel 2.6.30-2-686 (i686)

Current Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try to remove Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, or Rhythmbox, results in an inability to remove these packages without removing gnome and/or gnome-desktop.

Expected Behaviour: Using Aptitude or Synaptic to try remove any of the applications listed above, (and any other applications on which the basic functionality of Gnome does not depend), should result in the removal of the application(s) specified without removing gnome, or gnome-desktop, or any other critical components.

With the exception of Remmina, (which was not installed), I have removed all of the above apps from Gnome 2.26 running on Ubuntu Intrepid without any problems, so it's clear that these dependencies under Gnome 2.28 on Debian are spurious. I am sure there are many other users who will never use some or all of the above apps, (and probably others as well), and we should be able to remove these apps and reduce system clutter without breaking Gnome.

Because it's a toss-up whether this is a Gnome problem or a Debian
packaging problem, I have filed it with both Gnome and Debian. (I filed the report with Gnome before having read the Debian direction to not file
upstream).

Regards

Paul Taylor



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