Bug#665468: glib-networking: should not depend on gsettings-desktop-schemas

[Hermogenes Hebert Pereira Oliveira]

Package: glib-networking
Version: 2.30.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The dependency of glib-networking in gsettings-desktop-schemas is
causing the installation of unnecessary gconf/dconf packages.  The
installation of many small webbrowsers, like luakit, for example,
which depend on libsoup2.4-1 (and, hence on glib-networking) end up
pulling a lot of unrelated gconf/dconf packages.

$ aptitude why luakit dconf-service
p   luakit                    Depends libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.26.1)                  
p   libsoup2.4-1              Depends glib-networking (>= 2.28.4)               
p   glib-networking           Depends gsettings-desktop-schemas                 
p   gsettings-desktop-schemas Depends dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backen
                                      d                                         
p   dconf-gsettings-backend   Depends dconf-service (< 0.10.0-3.1~)             

This problem affects not only luakit but also surf, uzbl and many
other packages.  Futhermore, it is related to bug #575020 reported
against gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and affects gst123 (a command-line
gstreamer interface).  That is, even if bug #575020 is closed,
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good will continue to depend on gconf/dconf
packages through its dependency on libsoup2.4-1.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash