Bug#579811: Does linking to libkcal4 really must pull kdepim-runtime ?

[Regis Boudin <regis@debian.org>]

Package: libkcal4
Version: 4:4.4.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of Tellico, and I tried to build it against the coming
KDE4.4.2 from experimental. I noticed the split of the package into libraries,
which is great. However, I also noticed that they pretty much all make the
application linking to them depend on kdepim-runtime.

This pretty much seems to defeat the purpose of splitting the package, since
tellico ends up depending on kdepim-runtime, which in turn pulls akonadi-server
(and mysql-server-core as well).

Tellico is linked to libkcal and libkabc for really non-core features,
therefore it would be really nice if you could remove the dependency on kdepim-
runtime in the shlibs files, so the users don't end up pulling all the kdepim
infrastructure for an optional feature.

This abviously applies to the libraries tellico depends on, but probably to all
the other lib packages built from kdepimlibs.

Thanks,

Regis



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libkcal4 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libical0                      0.44-3     iCalendar library implementation i
ii  libkabc4                      4:4.4.2-1  library for handling address book 
ii  libkdecore5                   4:4.4.2-1  the KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdeui5                     4:4.4.2-1  the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii  libkio5                       4:4.4.2-1  the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii  libkpimutils4                 4:4.4.2-1  library for dealing with email add
ii  libkresources4                4:4.4.2-1  the KDE Resource framework library
ii  libqt4-xml                    4:4.6.2-4  Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4                    4:4.6.2-4  Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                     4:4.6.2-4  Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6                    4.5.0-2    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

libkcal4 recommends no packages.

libkcal4 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information