Bug#382669: gconf2: maintainer scripts introduce new dependencies

[Josselin Mouette]

severity 382669 wishlist
thanks

Le samedi 12 août 2006 à 17:30 +0200, Emil Nowak a écrit :
> Package: gconf2
> Version: 2.14.0-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Normally upstream package of gvonf2 doesn't depend on python. In all other
> distributions gconf2 also doesn't depend on python.
> 
> But in debian we have "gconf-schemas" script which is written in python, and
> so all programs that need gconf now automatically depend on python.

If anyone manages to rewrite the gconf-schemas and update-gconf-defaults
scripts in perl, *and* if I can decently understand and maintain these
scripts, I will be happy to replace the current scripts with the
provided ones. Currently, these scripts allow us to make all
GConf-related packages comply with the FHS and to ease their
maintainability. There is no way that we can remove this functionality.

> I'm not sure but IMHO such "new dependencies" should be against debian policy.
> What if libc6 guys decide to write some post-install script-helper with
> JavaBeanShell ?

Python is one of the supported languages for the GNOME platform. It is
expected that a typical GNOME installation requires python anyway.

Of course, trying to save dependencies is a good thing, but not at the
price of maintainability.
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