[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#946914: geany: installing geany on a machine without gui doesn't install the packages needed for all graphical apps

[Paolo Benvenuto]

Package: geany
Version: 1.33-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm preparing a buster server, I received it without anything graphical. After entering the server with ssh -XC and installing geany with

sudo apt install geany

I get:

$ geany
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connessione rifiutata

Geany: cannot open display


And actually geany has installed no graphical stuff.

On the contrary, if I install nautilus, it installs all the packages needed to run a graphical app.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages geany depends on:
ii  geany-common         1.33-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                2.28-10
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.16.0-4
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-4
ii  libfribidi0          1.0.5-3.1+deb10u1
ii  libgcc1              1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.24.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii  libstdc++6           8.3.0-6

geany recommends no packages.

Versions of packages geany suggests:
pn  doc-base  <none>
pn  libvte9   <none>

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