Bug#366365: libcvsservice0 should only recommend cvs (not depend)
Package: libcvsservice0
Version: 4:3.5.5-3
Followup-For: Bug #366365
libcvsservice0 is depended upon by many packages which link it in, even though
cvs functionality is not needed nor wanted. quanta is one such package.
Because libcvsservice0 depends on cvs, it must be installed as wel.
But cvs is not actually used by libcvsservice0 until it is needed, and it will
function perfectly (doing nothing) without it. In fact Quanta did complain
during startup, but only it because cervesia wasn't installed (again, I don't
need it), not because cvs wasn't.
The situation where a library is depended upon which itself recommand the
package it actually use happen many times within debian, and so can be relied
upon to be accepted by all. One example is Kerberos, an other is mysql. Both
have runtimes libs which are often installed because of some dependancy even
though neither kerberos nor mysql is installed.
please change dependancy for cvs to recommand instead of depend.
thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1vmware
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libcvsservice0 depends on:
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-5 Concurrent Versions System
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
libcvsservice0 recommends no packages.
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