Bug#755071: evince-gtk still necessary?

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Thu Jul 17 21:36:41 UTC 2014


Am 17.07.2014 19:38, schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> 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.

Nod. I'd really like to get rid of the -gtk package and the double build.

So +1 from my side dropping evince-gtk.


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