Bug#455203: please lower dependency of libgnome-keyring0 -> gnome-keyring to Recommends

Hendrik Sattler debian at hendrik-sattler.de
Sun Dec 9 09:31:47 UTC 2007


Package: libgnome-keyring0
Version: 2.20.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

grepping through the sources, the hard dependency of libgnome-keyring0 on 
gnome-keyring is bogus. I agree that you need the daemon to actually use the 
keyring but since gnome libs (including this one) are often only chained 
dependencies for programs that never use the keyring, this would reduce 
installation size for them.
It is extremely rare that a lib actually _requires_ a program to run. 
Gnome-keyring is not such a case.

HS

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libgnome-keyring0 depends on:
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.20.1-1   GNOME keyring services (daemon 
and
ii  libc6                         2.7-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging 
syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.3-1   The GLib library of C routines

libgnome-keyring0 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information






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