Bug#412084: Please don't depend on libnss-mdns
Package: kdnssd
Severity: normal
while talking about an unrelated bug in #debian-utopia, we discussed why
libnss-mdns got installed on a user's machine. We discovered that this
is because kdnssd has a hard dependency on libnss-mdns, which was
dragged in via kdenetwork and kdelibs. This means that virtually every
user of any kde application has libnss-mdns installed!
According to #debian-utopia, the hard dependency is wrong. kdnssd cannot
do anything useful with libnss-mdns without avahi-daemon, which in turn
is only a recommended package.
I therefore ask you to demote the dependency to a Suggest. Recommends
still seems to high to me, because Recommends should be installed by
default. I don't see the rationale why every KDE installation should
have libnss-mdns installed and activated by default.
I CC'ed the pkg-utopia mailing list, so they can comment if I understood
something wrong.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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