Bug#560209: Please split package and separate libgvfscommon0

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 09 décembre 2009 à 19:25 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit :
> 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.

This library is private, it *must* not be used by other packages.
Therefore there is no point in putting it in a separate package.

Actually if you try the latest version you’ll see it has moved to a
private directory.

> The dependency of libgnome2-0 on gvfs could then be reduced to a
> recommends.

This dependency is not here because of the libgvfscommon library. It is
necessary so that some functions like gnome_url_show() work correctly.

Cheers, 
-- 
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