Bug#671876: Please have gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt Provides: gnuplot-nox

[Anton Gladky]

Hi all,

I agree with Agustin's suggestions.
Thanks.

Anton


2012/5/8 Agustin Martin <agmartin at debian.org>:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>> Package: src:gnuplot
>> Version: 4.6.0-7
>> Severity: important
>>
>>   Hello,
>>
>>   Recently, several of my packages that rely on any variant of gnuplot
>> to be available became uninstallable because of the conflicts between
>> the different gnuplot versions. Of course, I could update all my
>> packages to have them depend on gnuplot-nox | gnuplot-x11 |
>> gnuplot-qt, but that has the drawback of being fragile should gnuplot
>> provide another backend in the future.
>>
>>   Instead, here is what I propose: what about having all gnuplot
>> backends Provides: gnuplot-nox ? That way, packages can rely on
>> gnuplot-nox as being "minimal gnuplot functionalities" that should be
>> available in all backends.
>>
>>   What do you think about it ?
>
> Hi, Vincent and Anton,
>
> I read this bug report after noticing commit by Anton and mailing him about
> an extension to the fix, repeating here to have wider feedback (sorry for
> the duplicate, Anton),
>
> I think that apart from making gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt provide
> gnuplot-nox gnuplot-qt should also provide gnuplot-x11 (at least maxima
> depends on gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt indeed provides everything gnuplot-x11
> does and more). I am re-attaching the diff with that and a minor suggestion
> for a change in gnuplot-qt description.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Agustin
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