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 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). On Fri, May 25 2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 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 invocations ? ... looks at the >> manpage ... oh it's primarily a gui program. *sigh* > > 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 separate from all the GUI > machinery, but I'm sure life is short for upstream and they haven't > had an obvious reason to bother with this. Ah. Reassigning, as the bug is not in the debian-policy package. Hopefully I've quoted enough context for the dia maintainer (who is CCed). -- Sean Whitton
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