Bug#755071: evince-gtk still necessary?

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Thu Jul 17 17:38:29 UTC 2014


On 17/07/14 14:06, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: evince-gtk
> Version: 3.12.1-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if a separate evince-gtk package is still necessary at all. If I am
> not mistaken, evince has only two more package dependencies than evince-gtk:
> libnautilus-extension1a and libsecret-1-0.
> 
> Since evince-gtk identifies itself as "evince without GNOME keyring support", I
> guess it is the second dependency that is meant to get removed by the separate
> build. However, libsecret-1-0 has only two additional dependencies that aren't
> pulled in by evince[-gtk] anyway: libgcrypt11 and libsecret-common, of which
> the latter is an Arch: all package without further dependencies. The
> libnautilus-extension1a package in turn pulls in libselinux1.
> 
> So, is this it? Do we really need a separate binary package of evince to avoid
> the installation of four leaf packages?

Probably not.

Emilio



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