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Bug#776218: installation-reports: Reportbug needs python-vte, which is not installed in the default installation



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> (2015-01-26):
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote: 
>         > (major) The missing packages should be installed from the beginning. These are
>         > python-vte and python-gtkspell (which reportbug also wants).
>         
>         Might be a good idea for some gnome packages to pull those packages?
> 
> I’m not sure it’s the right way to do that. These packages are not
> maintained upstream and we want to get rid of them, not to add new
> dependencies. GNOME in jessie is fully built on GTK3, except for
> iceweasel and a couple of other default applications. And most Python
> dependencies have been switched to Python 3 as well (except for some
> Debian-specific scripts). 

I can understand the feeling but what do we do for reportbug then?
It's obviously too late to get it ported to gtk3, so shrug and let
people struggle with its text mode?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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