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

[Karsten Hilbert]

Am Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 08:33:57PM +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.

It now does, thanks for the suggestiong.

> > 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.

Is there anything fundamentally, conceptually *wrong*
(not just not recommendable) with

	Suggests: python3-pip

?

Best,
Karsten
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