Bug#525674: wordnet: Tcl dependency

Jakub Wilk ubanus at users.sf.net
Sun Apr 26 14:20:09 UTC 2009


Package: wordnet
Version: 1:3.0-15
Severity: minor

wordnet currently depends on tcl8.5 (and some X libraries, and freetype, 
and…) merely to satisfy requirements of wnb. However, some users (take me 
for instance) never use wnb and could happily live without Tcl (or Tk, 
or some X libraries, or…) installed.

Please either loosen the dependency (i.e., only recommend tcl8.5, tk8.5, 
etc.) or split the package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wordnet depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                2.1.13-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1                1:1.1.3-1         X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  tcl8.5                 8.5.7-1           Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  tk8.5                  8.5.7-1           Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 -
ii  wordnet-base           1:3.0-15          electronic lexical database of Eng
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

wordnet recommends no packages.

wordnet suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jakub Wilk





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