Bug#530275: fortunes package is not Recommended by gnome-panel, makes wanda useless

Diego Escalante Urrelo diegoe at gnome.org
Sat May 23 16:56:51 UTC 2009


Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.24.3-1+b1
Severity: important

Wanda needs fortunes to show its nice quote popup, but right now the package is
not installed as a Recommends: of gnome-panel; I think it should since most
users won't know that the 'missing command' is actually 'fortunes'.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about               2.26.1-1       The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.24.0.1-4   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data        2.26.1-1       Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus               2.24.2-2       an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data          2.24.3-1       common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.26.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.24.1-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.24.1-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.9-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.8.6-2.1fonts The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.14-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.80-4         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7              2.26.1.1-2     Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-11      2.26.1.1-2     Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8     2.26.1.1-2     GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.26.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.4-1      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.1-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11     2.26.1-1       Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2            2.24.2-2       an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.26.0-1       The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.24.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.16.1-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgweather1              2.26.1-1       GWeather shared library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.17-0.1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0        2.24.3-1+b1    library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.24.2-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2           0.9-3          library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2                0.9-3          library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  librsvg2-2                2.22.3-2       SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libwnck22                 2.24.2-2       Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.1-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                   1:1.0.4-2      X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                  0.4            freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                   0.12.1-1      easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  evolution-data-server      2.26.1.1-2    evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets              2.24.3.1-2+b1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.24.0-4      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session              2.22.3-3      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gvfs                       1.2.2-2       userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  policykit-gnome            0.9.2-2       GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser              2.26.1-1   Intuitive web browser - dummy pack
ii  evolution                     2.26.1.1-2 groupware suite with mail client a
ii  gdm                           2.20.9-1   GNOME Display Manager
ii  gnome-session                 2.22.3-3   The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-system-tools            2.22.1-4   Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.24.3-3   The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.24.2-2   GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                      2.26.2-3   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   242-1      X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                          2.24.0-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

-- no debconf information






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