Bug#225268: glabels tries to use scrollkeeper-update in postinst

[Sebastien Bacher]

Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> writes:

> No depends at all on Gnome?  What do you think all this crud in its
> dependencies is, then?  At the risk of asking a really stupid question, why
> does glabels need to depend on libaudiofile?  On libesd?  Does libgnomeui
> bring those in?  I'm not up on Gnome library dependencies... I just know
> glabels has no reason to make any noise.

libgnome2-0 depends on libesd


> The previous version did not depend on scrollkeeper.  Why, then, does this
> one need to?  

The previous version didn't provide a /usr/share/omf directory so
scrollkeeper was not needed.


> Ah, well... another package that I can keep on hold while I figure out the
> best way to build it locally with minimum dependencies.  This is getting to
> be a habit.

I've changed the scrollkeeper Depends to Suggests, I hope it'll be
ok. Have you a lot of packages with bad depends ? Have you mailed the
maintainers to says that some of the Depends are not needed ? We have no
reason to keep un-needed depends ...


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher