Hi Jonas!

On Mo, 06 Nov 2017, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Package: lbdb
> Version: 0.45.1
> Severity: important

> lbdb means "Little Brother's DataBase" and I take that to indicate that
> it is lightweight compared to bbdb.

It's only a name of a program, which doesn't has this implication.
While BBDB is a address book mechanism in Emacs, LBDB is a different
address book mechanism for mutt.

> Release 0.45.1 adds dependency on bbdb, defeating that lightness: It now
> pulls in emacs which means for me 112 MB of unneeded baggage.
> 
> Please lower to only suggesting bbdb similar to all the other helper
> tools supported optionally by lbdb.

The problem is, that there are two elisp files included in lbdb
package, which I try to handle with dh-elpa.  This fails for
lbdb_bbdb_query.el (used in m_bbdb module), if bbdb isn't installed.

Anyway, I fear that for you not bbdb is the main problem but dh-elpa,
which depends on emacs25-nox | emacs25 | emacs24-nox | emacs24.

Maybe I should undo the migration from emacsen-common to dh-elpa, that
I was forced to by lintian warning (see
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/emacsen-common-without-dh-elpa.html )
or split out the elisp stuff into a separate package elpa-lbdb or the
like...

Greetings
Roland



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