Bug#885335: abiword is missing required dependency
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Tomas M <tomas@slax.org> wrote:
> You probably do not understand me correctly.
> I am not an end user.
> I am a creator of Live distribution Slax (now based on Debian).
>
> I understand that installing 'xorg' package will add libgl1-mesa-dri.
> But I do not want this to be included in base Slax. I just want
> xorg-server inthere.
xserver-xorg-core already Recommends libgl1-mesa-dri. I do hope you
install Recommends.
> Anyway, this is not about Slax. This is about Debian.
>
> I understand Debian this way:
> 1) user can install any package by apt install.
> 2) user can choose himself what he wants to install
> 3) so I choose to install xorg-server only. This works perfectly well.
> I do not need libgl1-mesa-dri to use xorg-server package.
> 4) then later I choose to install abiword
> 5) Debian's dependency tracking system should know that abiword
> requires libgl1-mesa-dri to run (it fails to start without it).
>
> I believe that dependency tracking in Debian should understand that if
> user wants to install abiword, then the user must have installed
> libgl1-mesa-dri, because otherwise abiword does not start.
Ok, could you investigate why Abiword appears to require
libgl1-mesa-dri? It's unusual for a Debian app to need to manually
depend on that.
Jeremy
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