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Bug#822612: python3-pyatspi: depends on libatk-adaptor and libgail-common



On 01/06/16 23:34, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Wed 01 Jun 2016 23:25:51 +0200, wrote:
>> On 26/04/16 02:07, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Mon 25 Apr 2016 17:48:02 +0200, wrote:
>>>> Do you think demoting libgail-common and libatk-adaptor to Recommends would
>>>> be fine at this stage, so that they are installed by default but can be
>>>> removed if desired (e.g. if/when there are no gtk2 apps installed)?
>>>
>>> That's a possibility. But we can also do like for qt4: since
>>> accessibility is now supposed to be enabled by default, we could
>>> make libgtk2.0-0 itself depend on libgail-common, i.e. the toolkit
>>> itself makes sure it has the tools to make itself accessible.  That
>>> way, libgail-common will get installed whenever a gtk2 application is
>>> installed for some reason.
>>
>> I'd like that. However that creates a dependency loop as libgail-common depends
>> on libgail18 which depends on libgtk2.0-0.
>>
>> Folding libgail into libgtk isn't an option as they don't necessarily keep the
>> same soname.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> In the Qt4 case, we used a Recommends.  Here libgtk2.0-0 would recommend
> libgail-common.

Oh, sure, that sounds good. I'm busy this week but we'll try to look at it when
I have time (probably not until next week).

Cheers,
Emilio


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