Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Brainslug]

o.k., so this is weird....

I agree that meld does not list gnome-user-guide as a dependency.
gome-user-guide gets auto-installed because meld seems to required yelp
- even though it is not listed in its dependencies either:


root at uw1:~# aptitude install meld
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-user-guide{a} meld yelp{a} yelp-xsl{a}
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/13.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 55.1 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]


After I install meld, I can safely remove yelp, yepl-xsl and
gnome-user-guide again and meld keeps working as expected, so why does
yelp get installed in the first place?


This problem is reproducible on all three of my Debian machines,
including a fresh install. Installation of meld pulls in yelp.


FWIW, I don't seem to have any pending or broken packages installed that
could be blamed for the yelp installation:

root at uw1:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and

root at flexo:~# aptitude search ~b
root at flexo:~#


Any idea why meld pulls in yelp?


Thanks!