Bug#754603: gnuplot-qt does not provide gnuplot-nox, but package description says otherwise

[Josef Kufner]

Hi Anton,
gitstats is not the only package. There are few more depending on
gnuplot-nox: boinc-cgi-stripchart, gitstats, gnuplot-mode,
libchart-gnuplot-perl, polygraph, probcons-extra. I don't know these
tools, but I guess there will be the same dependency problem as with
gitstats.

Could you please add 'Provides: gnuplot-nox' to make life a bit easier
until other packages are updated?

I can file bugreports for these 5 packages, but before I do that, how
exactly should other packages which require non-interactive mode to
render few plots depend on gnuplot packages? (I will link this bug from
other bug reports.)

Thank you!

Josef Kufner


Dne 13.7.2014 v 10:21 Anton Gladky napsal(a):
> Hi Josef, thanks for bugreport.
> 
> I think we should fix the documentation, that is true.
> I do not really see any reason, why gitstats depends on
> gnuplot-nox, not gnuplot itself. gnuplot-nox is the minimal
> version of gnuplot, so it should not be any problems to use
> -x11 or -qt.
> 
> Please ask gistats maintainer to change dependency.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
> 2014-07-13 0:28 GMT+02:00 Josef Kufner <jk at frozen-doe.net>:
>> Package: gnuplot-qt
>> Version: 4.6.5-6
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I cannot upgrade to gnuplot-qt 4.6.5-7 (from  4.6.5-6) because gitstats depends
>> on gnuplot-nox, but gnuplot-qt is in conflict with it and does not provide it.
>> However, package description says it does provide it:
>>
>>> The package provides gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-nox terminals plus an additional
>> QT-terminal for output (not default one).
>>
>> There is nothing in dependencies wich would implement this paragraph of
>> description.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>>   APT prefers unstable
>>   APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>> Versions of packages gnuplot-qt depends on:
>> ii  gnuplot              4.6.5-6
>> ii  libc6                2.19-5
>> ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-2
>> ii  libedit2             3.1-20140620-1
>> ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.0-10
>> ii  libgd3               2.1.0-3+b1
>> ii  libglib2.0-0         2.40.0-3
>> ii  liblua5.1-0          5.1.5-5
>> ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.3-1
>> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.3-1
>> ii  libqt4-network       4:4.8.6+dfsg-2
>> ii  libqt4-svg           4:4.8.6+dfsg-2
>> ii  libqtcore4           4:4.8.6+dfsg-2
>> ii  libqtgui4            4:4.8.6+dfsg-2
>> ii  libstdc++6           4.9.0-10
>> ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-2
>>
>> gnuplot-qt recommends no packages.
>>
>> Versions of packages gnuplot-qt suggests:
>> pn  gnuplot-doc  <none>
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
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