Bug#560209: Please split package and separate libgvfscommon0

[Hendrik Sattler]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.4.1-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

it is common packaging style to put non-private libraries into a separate package. The package libgnome2-0 depends on gvfs only because it depends on libgvfscommon.so.0. Splitting this library into a separate package would thus reduce the install size for those users that do not actually use Gnome but only applications that happen to link to libgnome2.
The dependency of libgnome2-0 on gvfs could then be reduced to a recommends.

Thanks,

HS

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.2-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal1                       0.5.13-4   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libudev0                      146-5      libudev shared library
ii  x11-utils                     7.4+1      X11 utilities

Versions of packages gvfs recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  gnome-mount | exo-utils       <none>     (no description available)
ii  hal                           0.5.13-4   Hardware Abstraction Layer

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
pn  gvfs-backends                 <none>     (no description available)

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