Hi,

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:08 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
[...]
> looking at a few of the packages pulled in when upgrading devscripts:
> 
> esound-clients
> esound-common
> libesd0
> libaudiofile0
> 
> what scripts actually make use of audio in general or esound in
> particular?

None. They're also not in the Recommends list.

Ah - this looks like another side effect of gnuplot; libesd0 is a
dependency of libwxgtk2.6-0.

> gnuplot
> gnuplot-nox
> gnuplot-x11
> 
> why is it pulling in both gnuplot-nox and gnuplot-x11?

devscripts Recommends: gnuplot because it's required for plotchangelog
to work. gnuplot itself Depends: on both -nox and -x11.

> libwxbase2.6-0
> libwxgtk2.6-0
> 
> what is pulling these in?

gnuplot-nox by the look of it.

> i'll attempt to track down what exactly is pulling in what, but just
> wanted to mention those off the bat.

Thanks. Any suggestions for changes that don't involve leaving scripts
non-functional would be very useful.

> this bug is making it harder to keep devscripts installed on a simple
> chroot environment that used for test builds of packages, where many of
> the devscripts utilities are very useful. i could manually remove the
> packages, and hopefully apt will remember that, i guess.

It's supposed to. :)

> it also has the side-effect of bloating pbuilder environments, which
> kind of defeats the purpose of pbuilder, as it will be harder to track
> down missing build-dependencies. i haven't verified if fresh pbuilder
> installs include devscripts or not.

The pbuilder I use for building devscripts doesn't include it. (Created
late December by the look of the file dates). It's priority Optional so
would only be pulled in as a dependency.

Regards,

Adam




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