[Python-apps-team] Bug#479077: Recommend of kdiff3 & tkdiff bring a lot of X libraries

[Francois-Denis Gonthier]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0-4
Severity: normal

This is at worse an annoyance.  The Mercurial package recommends
kdiff3 (for very good reasons).  On a desktop system this is alright
but on a console server, this brings in a ton of libraries that should
not be installed.

Installing with aptitude --without-recommends install just mercurial
and mercurial-common.

The mercurial package should be cloned or split in two.  By cloning I
mean creating a mercurial-nox package which comes with X extensions
disabled.  Splitting the package would mean removing the extensions
that need X from the main package into another package.  This would
require an additional virtual package for compatibility.

I don't know if there is a policy about this kind of but you seem to
care about that for disabling extensions based on whether 'wish' is
present or not.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  mercurial-common              1.0-4      Scalable distributed version contr
ii  python                        2.5.2-1    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.7.7      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  kdiff3                        0.9.92-2   compares and merges 2 or 3 files o

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