Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Hi Brainslug,

2016-09-10 23:08 GMT+02:00 Brainslug <brainslug at freakmail.de>:
> Package: meld
> Version: 3.16.2-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> meld automatically installs gnome-user-guide as a dependency. This is
> completely unnecessary and gnome-user-guide can be manually removed
> afterwards without breaking anything.
>
> Instead of listing gnome-user-guide as a dependency, meld should only
> recommend gnome-user-guide.

Meld does not seem to list gnome-user-guide as a dependency.
Try removing both and running:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends meld

Cheers,
Balint

>
> Thank you.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (690, 'unstable'), (680, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages meld depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
> ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0                         3.21.5-2
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module                      0.30-3
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.21.5-3
> ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1                       3.21.5-2
> ii  patch                                        2.7.5-1
> ii  python-gi                                    3.21.91-2
> ii  python-gi-cairo                              3.21.91-2
> pn  python:any                                   <none>
>
> Versions of packages meld recommends:
> ii  yelp  3.20.1-1
>
> meld suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>