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

[Matthias Klose]

On 3/3/21 8:29 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 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.

well, then it can tell to install python3-pip as well. No need to have a hard
dependency on that.

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

just remove it, or package the dependency properly.

Matthias