Package: gdm Version: 2.8.0.6-2 Severity: important Tags: patch gdm directly depends on a large number of libraries which it doesn't directly need itself, but which are only needed by libraries it depends on; examples are libfreetype6, libgsf-1-113 and libaudiofile0. This is deprecated as it complicates library transitions; see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html
By relibtoolizing the gdm source package, the dependency list can be shrunk a lot; on current sid on i386, the result was (wdiff style): Depends: adduser, debconf-2.0, libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1), [-libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4),-] libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), [-libbz2-1.0,-] libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2), [-libcroco3 (>= 0.6.0), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35),-] libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), [-libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1),-] libgconf2-4 (>= 2.9), [-libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2),-] libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), [-libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.4.3),-] libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.10.0-0), [-libgnutls11 (>= 1.0.16), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.1), libgsf-1-113 (>= 1.13.3),-] libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6, [-libjpeg62,-] liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.10.1), [-libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel),-] libpopt0 (>= 1.7), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.9.5), libselinux1 (>= 1.26), libsm6, [-libtasn1-2 (>= 0.2.13),-] libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.21), libxrandr2, libxrender1 (>> 1:0.9.0-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), libpam-modules (>= 0.72-1), libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1), gnome-session | xterm | x-window-manager | x-terminal-emulator, xbase-clients, gksu (>= 1.0.7) Please relibtoolize the gdm source package to reduce its direct dependency list. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (750, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups ii aterm [x-terminal-emulat 0.4.2-11 Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.10.0-8 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.10.0-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.25-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-11 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libdmx1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Distributed Multihead X client lib ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.5-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an ii libgsf-1-113 1.13.3-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.9.5-6 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Authentication library ii libxdmcp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Display Manager Control Protocol ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display ii libxml2 2.6.22-2 GNOME XML library ii metacity [x-window-manag 1:2.10.3-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii mrxvt [x-terminal-emulat 0.4.2-1 lightweight multi-tabbed X termina ii openbox [x-window-manage 3.2-7 standards compliant, fast, light-w ii pterm [x-terminal-emulat 0.58-3 PuTTY terminal emulator ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulato 1:2.6.4-10 VT102 terminal emulator for the X ii rxvt-unicode [x-terminal 5.8-1 RXVT-like terminal emulator with U ii wmaker [x-window-manager 0.92.0-5 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X ii xbase-clients 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m ii xterm [x-terminal-emulat 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii dialog 1.0-20051219-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe pn gdm-themes <none> (no description available) pn zenity <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- Obsig: developing a new sig