Bug#848835: libkf5akonadicore-bin: really necessary to depend on akonadi-server?

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

Package: libkf5akonadicore-bin
Version: 16.04.3-4
Severity: normal


Hi.

Since 16.04.3-4 this depends on akonadi-server…

Is this reall necessar? I mean it' just a librar package and probably
shouldn't force one to install yet another daemon just beacuse some other
package depends on it.

In my case I just use digikam, not even in a KDE but Cinnamon desktop env,…
digikam depends on digikam-private-libs which in turn depends on
libkf5akonadicontact5 which in turn depends on libkf5akonadicore-bin which
now pulls in the server.

Can't this be circumvented somehow? I mean many packages e.g. build agaist
and depend on the avahi client libs, but these only recommend the
avahi server and don't force one to install it.


Cheers,
Chris.


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

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libkf5akonadicore-bin depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.24-8
ii  libgcc1                1:6.2.1-7
ii  libkf5akonadiwidgets5  4:16.04.3-3+b1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5      5.28.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5            5.28.0-1
ii  libqt5core5a           5.7.1+dfsg-1
ii  libqt5widgets5         5.7.1+dfsg-1
ii  libstdc++6             6.2.1-7

libkf5akonadicore-bin recommends no packages.

libkf5akonadicore-bin suggests no packages.

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