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Bug#590111: marked as done (does kdebase really need to depend on hal?)

Your message dated Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:33:21 +0300
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and subject line Re: Bug#590111: does kdebase really need to depend on hal?
has caused the Debian Bug report #590111,
regarding does kdebase really need to depend on hal?
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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

-- no debconf information

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Hello,

On penktadienis 23 Liepa 2010 21:35:00 Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
>   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.

kdebase in lenny depends on hal [1] so does this *transitional* package. You 
should forget about kdebase anyway, it will be dropped post-squeeze.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/kdebase

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