[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#852281: Please do not make libasound2 dependent on python

[Michael Biebl]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.1.3-1
Severity: important

Hi,

I have i386 support enabled and libasound2:i386 installed.
The latest update wants to pull those additional packages

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libbz2-1.0:i386 libdb5.3:i386 libffi6:i386 libncursesw5:i386
  libpython2.7:i386 libpython2.7-minimal:i386 libpython2.7-stdlib:i386
  libreadline7:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libssl1.1:i386

This is most likely due to this change
"Enabled python to install smixer. Added python-dev to Build-Depends
accordingly."


Was it intentional that the libasound2 package got a dependency on
python? Would you consider reverting that change please or splitting the
python dependent parts into a separate package.
I don't want a low-level audio library pull in that many new
dependencies.

Regards,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)