Bug#1072508: rdepends of xdg-desktop-portal

128 at gmx.us 128 at gmx.us
Mon Jun 3 07:05:56 BST 2024


Package: gnome-session
Version: 46.0-2

Hi,

`gnome-session` and some other gnome packages have dependencies on `xdg-desktop-portal*` packages. However, from the description of `xdg-desktop-portal` it seems like it is only needed when you use a sand-boxing technology like `flatpak`. So, this doesn't have to be a dependency of `gnome-session`/`gnome-core`. These packages are already recommended dependencies of `flatpak`.

`xdg-desktop-portal-kde/wlr/xapp` for example does not have an rdepends relation with kde/wlr/xfce.

$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal
Reverse Depends:
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (>= 1.17.1)
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-xapp (>= 1.7.1)
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-kde
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (>= 1.14.0)
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-tests
$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Reverse Depends:
  Depends: gnome-core (>= 41~)
 |Depends: gnome-snapshot
 |Depends: shotwell
 |Depends: gnome-snapshot
 |Depends: gnome-session
$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Reverse Depends:
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-xapp
  Depends: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal-kde
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Reverse Depends:
  Depends: plasma-mobile
$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Reverse Depends:
$ apt rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests xdg-desktop-portal-xapp
xdg-desktop-portal-xapp
Reverse Depends:



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