[pkg-lxqt-devel] Bug#903836: pcmanfm-qt: depends on libfm4 which pulls in GTK+ libraries

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (2018-07-18 20:33:03)
> Thank you for clarify your pov - but that doesn't change nothing - 
> maybe i wasn't clear enough about: pcmanfm-qt 0.13.0 uses parts of 
> libfm - and the libfm-modules are used by pcmanfm-qt (gvfs and other 
> functionality).

My clarification did change one thing: The possibility of concluding - 
wrongly - that the bugreport is a misunderstanding.

Thanks for confirming that pcmanfm-qt indeed depends transitively on 
libgtk2 via libfm-modules.


> If you would have a look into salsa/pcmanfm-qt you will notice that i 
> moved libfm-modules from Recommends to Depends a year ago - i tested 
> the manager with apt install pcmanfm-qt --no-install-recommends and 
> pcmanfm-qt refused to start :) - so the modules are a real dependency.

I did not do a deep inspection of historical changes to this package.

Also, I do not imply that this bug is a simple matter of removing a hint 
in the package.  I imagine the issue is one of compiling things 
differently and/or patching code.


> As i wrote: We will not depend on libfm in the next version of 
> pcmanfm-qt directly anymore. Certainly we still will depend on 
> menu-cached that will throw in some libfm things - but i guess that 
> the dependency to libfm-modules will be gone in 0.14.0.

That's great.

I am puzzled, however, why you close this bugreport now.  I would expect 
it to be appropriate to close the bugreport when the bug is fixed, not 
when you have shared the good news about prospected future changes.

I shall not revert the bug closing again, but leave it to the package 
maintainer to decide what is sane for their package.


> Disclaimer: This was written not with my Debian Maintainer Hat on - 
> this was written as a member of the LXQt core team and LXQt release 
> manager.

I appreciate your roles.  All of them.


 - Jonas

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