>>>>> Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> On Lu, 11 iul 11, 14:51:48, William Hopkins wrote:
> Old thread, but still... >> Absolutely! Easy to find examples with apt-cache rdepends dbus. I >> would posit that nearly all packages that depend on DBUS should >> actually depend on libdbus{,-c++,-java,-ruby}. Do these packages >> (such as rhythmbox) fail to work if DBUS isn't running? No.. the >> calls are never calls required for running, only for nifty extra >> features like telling your systray what song you're listening to. > [snip more explanations] > As far as I can tell from my limited experience you are right. I > would suggest you file bugs in the BTS as you find such > occurrences. Of course it helps a lot if you also provide patches and > maybe also raise the severity a bit. 'wishlist' is very polite, but > 'minor' or even higher might be apropiate in some cases. > If you don't receive any reply you could investigate whether the > package is unmaintained and take action accordingly. I wonder if there should be a separate mailing list to Cc: such bug reports. (debian-dependency-inquisitors@, perhaps?) I seem to remember that there was a longstanding issue with Depends: logrotate. Of course, no package should ever be “rendered unusable” (which, AIUI, is the very essense of Depends:) should logrotate not be installed! Yet, there seem to be something like 45 packages that Depends: on it as per Debian Wheezy. -- FSF associate member #7257 2 days left to Software Freedom Day http://sf-day.org/ Event at Altai State University: http://sfd.am-1.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8662ktsnme....@gray.siamics.net