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

[Vincent Danjean]

  Hi Gerardo,

  In changeset 911 for the mercurial package, you change
Recommends: rcs | kdiff3 | tkdiff | meld
into
Recommends: kdiff3 | tkdiff | meld

  The rcs was introduced in response to bug 460943 (more exactly, rcs
was put in the first place instead of the last) and you remove it.
Now, we have bug 479077 that is, more or less, the same problem.
  Can you elaborate on your change ?

  Francois-Denis: would it be ok for you if we place rcs in the first
place again ? I'm not sure that creating a new package only to have
different dependencies (more exactly different recommends) would be a
good think.

  Best regards
    Vincent

PS: I plan to make an upload next day to fix 479485 (committed in repo)
Depending on what you answer, I will also manage this bug or not.

Francois-Denis Gonthier wrote:
> 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.

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