[Debconf-devel] Bug#542175: updated patch

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 03:36:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > ahead and apply it to Ubuntu because we're under serious space
> > constraints for our next release and need to work to get rid of
> > libgnome2-perl as part of that; but with my Debian hat on, unless Joey
> > objects, I'll apply this to Debian as soon as we thaw.
> 
> That probably makes sense, although it's worth noting Debian is also
> under some space constraints on gnome CD1.

Will 600KB or so make a useful difference there?  If so then yes, it may
be worth trying to cram it in, although if we're doing that then it
probably wants some more extensive testing than I've given it (I've done
samples/demo, samples/demo adjusted for backup, and dpkg-reconfigure of
a few packages in a few different UTF-8 locales - I think it was
apt-listchanges, grub-pc, and man-db).

Actually getting rid of libgnome2-perl requires changing several other
packages which have dependencies or recommendations on libgnome2-perl
"because we want the debconf Gnome frontend".  Some likely candidates
which I can see on a brief browse through Packages:

  debian-edu-install
  gdebi
  gnome-desktop-environment
  synaptic

It would also be worth checking that there's nothing else on GNOME CD 1
that actually needs libgnome2-perl in its own right, because in that
case we don't gain anything from rushing in a new debconf.
Possibilities for that:

  greenwich
  movixmaker-2
  podbrowser
  shutter
  yarssr

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]