[Python-apps-team] Bug#525839: Abnormal recommandations (abiword ...) for pkpgcounter package in case of server environment

[alet at librelogiciel.com]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:47:49PM +0200, FERRAND Adrien wrote:
> Package: pkpgcounter
> Version: 3.50-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello.
>
> As you can see below, pkpgcounter recommends some packages like abiword. For a desktop usage, it seems normal to recommend a
> text editor. But for a server usage, theses recommendations can make aptitude install all X libraries if the user is not
> careful ( as aptitude install recommended packages by default ).
>
> Indeed pkpgcounter can be used for printing quotas ( like pykota ) with cups.
>
> It's just a suggestion, but you could remove theses recommendations for pkpgcounter, in order to avoid useless overcharge for
> careless user.

pkpgcounter depends on abiword only to do correct accounting of
Microsoft Word documents. This never happens when pkpgcounter is used as
part of PyKota, since in this case pkpgcounter only deals with printers
page description languages like PCL or PostScript. However pkpgcounter
can also be used directly on several file formats, including .DOC, and
for this particular format it first converts the document through
abiword, because wvware (iirc), though a command line software, didn't
always do the job as expected.

not sure how to deal with this, besides explaining why each dependency
is needed (or not).

bye

Jerome Alet