Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 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?)
> hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme (_two_ themes?)
> I think this is almost certainly the result of Recommends bloat in
> some other packages.
dia is at fault for all of this, which is in Build-Depends to allow the
maintainer script state diagrams to be maintained in the preferred form
for modification.
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 on both gnome-icon-theme and
hicolor-icon-theme (but gnome-icon-theme depends on hicolor-icon-theme
anyway).
I kind of want to rewrite them in dot, which I personally much prefer, but
eh.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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