Control: severity -1 important
Hi,
John Zaitseff wrote:
> The latest (Sid) version of emacs-common now depends on
> "dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend", which in turn
> eventually installs dbus-daemon -- which is problematic in a Debian
> build chroot environment. Can that dependency be downgraded to
> Recommends or Suggests?
Or put the dependency back into those packages which actually require
dbus. Because the current dependency setup causes dbus and other
completely unnecessary desktop stuff to be pulled in on servers and
VMs where just emacs-nox is installed despite emacs-nox is meant for
non desktop systems. (And please remember that the "d" in "dbus"
stands for "desktop".)
John Zaitseff wrote:
> After a bit of digging around through the package source code, this
> is as a result of using the binaries from the "pgtk" build of Emacs
> for common binaries -- since "other builds' emacsclients cannot
> connect to pgtk under Wayland".
*sigh*
> Given that that is a good reason, IMHO, for using the binaries in
> that way, feel free to close this bug report.
No, this is a rather severe degradation of emacs-nox's usability and
needs to be fixed, either by splitting off these components into a new
package emacs-common-pgtk or simlar if Wayland causes such problems
for other variants or by solving it in another way which causes less
issues for the other variants, too —- like e.g. putting these
dependencies in other packages with emacs-common just sporting them in
Recommends or Suggests.
Regards, Axel
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