Bug#454991: rsvg and rsvg-viewer should not be packaged together

Vincent Fourmond fourmond at debian.org
Mon Dec 10 20:27:30 UTC 2007


Loïc Minier wrote:
>>   The solution to that would be to package them separately. What do
>> you think about that ? After all, the converter could be used
>> on a X free server. It would then pull in even much more useless
>> dependencies, such as the full X11 librairies. 
> 
>  I understand your concern about the dependency tree, but I still
>  wouldn't want these binaries to be split, it would be a bit overkill.
>  However, libgnomeprint is being phased out upstream in favor of Gtk+
>  printing support.  You're welcome to work on moving to Gtk+ for
>  printing, but I suggest you work with upstream on this subject.

  Well, I guess I'll just selfishly recompile rsvg for my own needs (and
rename it svg2png) - I'm afraid I have neither competences nor time to
help in this particular case.

  Regards,

	Vincent

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