Bug#648049: gnome: package priority between tomboy and gnote

[Osamu Aoki]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.0+3
Severity: wishlist

Executive summary: 

Please change dependency for tomboy etc. to:

  gnote | tomboy (>= 1.6) | zim

Longer story:

gnome dependency has: 

  tomboy (>= 1.6) | gnote

Since first one is the default choice, this install tomboy as default.

After f-spot is gone, tomboy is the only package depending on MONO so
this introduces many *-cil package dependency to gnome-core just for
this tomboy package.

So without religious argument, just by technical judgement of size,
speed and lightness, why not change this dependency as: 

  gnote | tomboy (>= 1.6)

(I know both are active project.)

As I checked Ubuntu forum*, people seem to use zim as GTK based
alternative with practically for the same purpose with VCS support etc.
Since gnome tends to list alternatives:
 
  abiword (>= 2.8) | libreoffice-gnome
  gnumeric (>= 1.10) | libreoffice-gnome
  liferea | evolution-rss | blam

Why not make this even better with:

  gnote | tomboy (>= 1.6) | zim

So install of zim allow us to remove gnote without needing to remove
gnome package and manually selecting all other package in it.

Regards,

Osamu

*)
 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1764535.html
 http://zim-wiki.org/index.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash