On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:00:35AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > I noticed that grace depends now on gconf2 (stretch). By looking at > the source package, it seems that this dep has been introduced by the > addition of the thumbnailer in grace. However, forcing grace to depend > on gconf2 does not make that much sense, since many people use grace > in desktop environments which are not gnome based. And in many cases > grace is still used only on the command-line (e.g. via ssh connections > to clusters). Also, the provided thumbnailer feature, which triggers > the dependency, is an addition to other software (namely, file > managers) which might not be used at all by grace users. > > My humble suggestion is to remove this dependency, since it triggers a > whole chain of other deps which are not necessary at all for grace to > work properly,
Certainly from well before stretch; the dependency was added in 2006. However, some of the reasoning[1] has changed since: nowadays it should be possible to use trigger support in gconf2 and demote the Depends: to something lesser, probably a Suggests:. I'll give it a look but I wouldn't expect to upload anything before the stretch release in a few weeks. It's not possible to get such a change accepted into stretch before then. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395079#42 -- Nicholas Breen nbr...@debian.org