Package: gdisk Version: 0.8.5-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
gdisk currently depends on groff-base. I suspect this is only so that the manpages can be read. I have 'tested' this by deleting all groff files, and gdisk seems to run fine, although I must admit that my tests were not even nearly exhaustive. If indeed groff-base is only needed for the manpages, and the functionality of gdisk itself is not affected when is not installed, then please make groff-base at most a recommendation, so that groff-base does not need to be installed on small systems. As a note: I checked the reverse dependencies of groff-base, and almost no other package, not even *-doc packages, have any form of dependency on it. Not even a suggests. (in fact, while 'countless' packages include manual pages, there are just two packages with a dependency on groff-base that probably need groff-base as a documentation viewer only, and both have just a suggests- dependency on it). Kind regards, Rogier. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdisk depends on: ii groff-base 1.21-9 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libicu48 4.8.1.1-10 ii libncurses5 5.9-10 ii libpopt0 1.16-7 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.2 gdisk recommends no packages. gdisk suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
