Bug#653111: postgresql-9.1-postgis: postgis dependencies are very strong
Andrew Harvey
andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 00:12:38 UTC 2011
Subject: postgresql-9.1-postgis: postgis dependencies are very strong
Package: postgresql-9.1-postgis
Version: 1.5.3-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Currently postgresql-9.1-postgis depends on postgis, and postgis
includes the gui application shp2pgsql-gui. This means that to install
the postgresql-9.1-postgis package I need to pull in gtk and other
dependencies for running a graphical application. For this reason I
think it would make sense to separate out shp2pgsql-gui from the
postgis package.
Another option, possibly in addition to the suggestion above, would be
to make postgres-9.1-postgis recommend the postgis package rather than
depend. However then you still can't use just the non-gui shp2pgsql
and pgsql2shp programs without installing all the dependencies the
-gui program requires.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages postgresql-9.1-postgis depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-23
ii libgeos-c1 3.2.2-3
ii libproj0 4.7.0-1
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii postgis 1.5.3-2
ii postgresql-9.1 9.1.2-2
postgresql-9.1-postgis recommends no packages.
postgresql-9.1-postgis suggests no packages.
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