Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

On 05/25, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: reassign -1 dia > control: severity -1 wishlist > control: retitle -1 Provide binary package containing CLI dia, without GUI > dependencies > > Hello, > > On Fri, May 25 2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > dia is at fault for all of this, which is in

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

control: reassign -1 dia control: severity -1 wishlist control: retitle -1 Provide binary package containing CLI dia, without GUI dependencies Hello, On Fri, May 25 2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > dia is at fault for all of this, which is in Build-Depends to allow > the maintainer script state

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Sean Whitton writes: > On Fri, May 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: >> (There was also an *enormous* pile of fonts and document processing >> tools etc., which is expected, I guess, although I do wonder what >> proportion of all that is used.) > Once we finish converting

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much"): > Yeah, it's a GUI program we're running in batch mode. In an ideal world, > there would be some separate library and CLI tool that would do batch > conversions that would be kept separa

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Ian Jackson writes: > I'm afraid to ask, but: why does python-gtk2 depend on numpy ? Don't > get me wrong, I like numpy, but, err, needed for gtk ? > Also, does dia really need python-gtk2 for the invocations we are > using ? Or, indeed for most of its

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Hello, On Fri, May 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > (There was also an *enormous* pile of fonts and document processing > tools etc., which is expected, I guess, although I do wonder what > proportion of all that is used.) Once we finish converting documents other than the main Policy manual to

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much"): > It depends on python-gtk2, which in turn depends on python-numpy. It also > depends on libgtk2.0-0, which depends on libcups2, which pulls in > libavahi-common3. libgtk2.0-0 depends

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Ian Jackson writes: > I did this, with recommends enabled, in a bare-ish sid shroot, and it > installed >python-numpy(wtf!) >libavahi-common3(libavahi:amd64 is sadly to be expected) >python-gtk2 (for gui applications?)

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.4.1 Severity: minor I did this, with recommends enabled, in a bare-ish sid shroot, and it installed python-numpy(wtf!) libavahi-common3(libavahi:amd64 is sadly to be expected) python-gtk2 (for gui applications?)