[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#601591: Bug#601591: Bug#601591: tk8.4: Should not recommend xterm

[Sergei Golovan]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
> Sergei Golovan, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 21:51:15 +0400, a écrit :
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
>> > The origin of the problem is that foo2zjs, part of the print task,
>> > recommends tk8.4 for its printer configuration tool. tk8.4 itself is not
>> > very invasive, but xterm is. Maybe you could use replace xterm with xvt
>> > (X terminal-emulator similar to xterm, but smaller), which only depends
>> > on libx11.
>>
>> Well, it really doesn't matter which terminal to use. xvt seems fine to me.
>> How do you think, is this bug important enough to be fixed during freeze?
>
> Yes, because it makes the default installation of the Printer server
> task quite bigger.

Please, look at the discussion in bug 601970
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601970). Relese team
rejected the change in dependencies. And I tend to agree. It's more
reasonable to make foo2zjs not to require tk8.4 and all X stuff. It's
a printer driver, so it's supposed to work without X. The graphical
configuration utility isn't vital for its work, so it's better to
downgrade it to 'suggests'.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan