Bug#590111: does kdebase really need to depend on hal?

[Vasilis Vasaitis <v.vasaitis@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Package: kdebase
Version: 5:63
Severity: normal


  Hello,

  kdebase, according to its description, is only a transition package that's
meant to pull kde-plasma-desktop. But then, why does it also depend on hal?
hal is of course considered obsolete these days and is being replaced by
udev and the various *kit packages. But also, it's not the KDE metapackage's
job to bring in tangential packages like that; the actual real packacges
that depend on it, if any, should do that. So unless there's some good
reason to keep it there, I would suggest dropping it from the package's
dependency list.

Thanks,
Vasilis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34.1
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kdebase depends on:
ii  hal                           0.5.14-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  kde-plasma-desktop            5:63       the KDE Plasma Desktop and minimal

Versions of packages kdebase recommends:
pn  kde-standard                  <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages kdebase suggests:
ii  kde-l10n-el [kde-l10n]        4:4.4.4-2  Greek (el) localization files for 
ii  kde-l10n-engb [kde-l10n]      4:4.4.4-2  British English (en_GB) localizati
ii  kde-l10n-es [kde-l10n]        4:4.4.4-2  Spanish (es) localization files fo

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