Bug#1060803: gnome-software: Please don't depend on `software-properties-gtk`

[Matthias Klumpp]

Am Di., 16. Jan. 2024 um 20:03 Uhr schrieb Julian
<juliannfairfax at protonmail.com>:
>
>
> > Fair point. We could maybe make it so g-s-p is only a recommended
> > dependency
>
> That is what this request is requesting. Just a change from depend to
> recommend
>
> > and modify the code so when g-s-p is not available, it
> > falls back to the GS dialog.
>
> I'm not sure what code you're referring to, but when running GNOME
> Software on Debian without s-p-gtk installed, the GS dialog is instead
> used.

Neat, looks like I wrote it properly back then :-)
Also appears like the change was reverted upstream a few months ago, I
wonder why... (we patch it back in at Debian/Ubuntu anyway)

In any case, I have no objections to moving g-s-p to recommends under
these circumstances :-)
Thanks for reporting this issue!

Best,
    Matthias

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