[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#931293: alsa-utils: unnecessary dependency

[astian]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The package depends on whiptail|dialog, but the only user of whiptail
(alsaconf) is not part of the package.  The only (optional) user of
dialog (alsa-info.sh) explicitly calls "dialog" and does not check for
whiptail.  Whiptail does not provide a "dialog" command and it's not
part of any alternative group.  It seems that there's no reason for
whiptail to be among the dependencies.

Cheers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod              26-1
ii  libasound2        1.1.8-1
ii  libc6             2.28-10
ii  libfftw3-single3  3.3.8-2
ii  libncursesw6      6.1+20181013-2
ii  libsamplerate0    0.1.9-2
ii  libtinfo6         6.1+20181013-2
ii  lsb-base          10.2019051400
ii  whiptail          0.52.21-1

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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