Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Brainslug]

never mind, looks like meld recommends yelp.

Thanks for the help. Please close this one.

Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Brainslug]

o.k., so this is weird

I agree that meld does not list gnome-user-guide as a dependency.
gome-user-guide gets auto-installed because meld seems to required yelp
- even though it is not listed in its dependencies either:


root@uw1:~# aptitude install meld
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-user-guide{a} meld yelp{a} yelp-xsl{a}
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/13.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 55.1 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]


After I install meld, I can safely remove yelp, yepl-xsl and
gnome-user-guide again and meld keeps working as expected, so why does
yelp get installed in the first place?


This problem is reproducible on all three of my Debian machines,
including a fresh install. Installation of meld pulls in yelp.


FWIW, I don't seem to have any pending or broken packages installed that
could be blamed for the yelp installation:

root@uw1:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and

root@flexo:~# aptitude search ~b
root@flexo:~#


Any idea why meld pulls in yelp?


Thanks!

Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Hi Brainslug,

2016-09-10 23:08 GMT+02:00 Brainslug :
> Package: meld
> Version: 3.16.2-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> meld automatically installs gnome-user-guide as a dependency. This is
> completely unnecessary and gnome-user-guide can be manually removed
> afterwards without breaking anything.
>
> Instead of listing gnome-user-guide as a dependency, meld should only
> recommend gnome-user-guide.

Meld does not seem to list gnome-user-guide as a dependency.
Try removing both and running:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends meld

Cheers,
Balint

>
> Thank you.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (690, 'unstable'), (680, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages meld depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
> ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 3.21.5-2
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-3
> ii  libgtk-3-0   3.21.5-3
> ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1   3.21.5-2
> ii  patch2.7.5-1
> ii  python-gi3.21.91-2
> ii  python-gi-cairo  3.21.91-2
> pn  python:any   
>
> Versions of packages meld recommends:
> ii  yelp  3.20.1-1
>
> meld suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>

Bug#837357: meld requires gnome-user-guide

[Brainslug]

Package: meld
Version: 3.16.2-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

meld automatically installs gnome-user-guide as a dependency. This is
completely unnecessary and gnome-user-guide can be manually removed
afterwards without breaking anything.

Instead of listing gnome-user-guide as a dependency, meld should only
recommend gnome-user-guide.

Thank you.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (690, 'unstable'), (680, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages meld depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 3.21.5-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-3
ii  libgtk-3-0   3.21.5-3
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1   3.21.5-2
ii  patch2.7.5-1
ii  python-gi3.21.91-2
ii  python-gi-cairo  3.21.91-2
pn  python:any   

Versions of packages meld recommends:
ii  yelp  3.20.1-1

meld suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information