[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#965088: onionshare: please demote python3-pyqt5

[Ulrike Uhlig]

Hi Jakub!

On 15.07.20 23:04, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: onionshare
> Version: 2.2-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> onionshare has currently python3-pyqt5 in Depends. But as I understand
> it, this package is only needed for the GUI, whereas the CLI could work
> fine without it. I'd like to run onionshare on a headless system without
> installing hundreds of megabytes of X11 and Qt libraries.
> 
> Please consider either demoting python3-pyqt5 to Recommends or putting
> the GUI and the CLI in separate packages.

I think this is a very valid usecase. Thank you for bringing it up.
I can try to look into that soonish.

Ulrike