[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#984438: questionable dependency on python3-pip

[Karsten Hilbert]

Am Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:49:29PM +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose:

> gnumed-client depends on python3-pip. Why?
>
> The only use is in external-tools/check-prerequisites.py trying to download the
> pysvg module last updated in 2012, and not ported to Python3 ...

The helper script external-tools/check-prerequisites.py
certainly does not do anything obnoxious like "trying to
download the pysvg module". It merely tells the user how to
retrieve the proper version thereof.

Quite apart from that the dependency can safely be demoted to
Recommends:, or even Suggests:, if the former is still
coupling too tightly.

Thanks,
Karsten (upstream)
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