Bug#886107: kdepim: depends on a lot of developer packages
Package: kdepim
Version: 4:16.04.3+5.95
Severity: normal
Dear Sandro, dear Maxy, dear Pino, dear maintainers,
A happy, peaceful and successful new year to you!
Today I tried again to upgrade to KF 5.41 from experimental and aptitude
stumbled over updating some -dev packages I had still installed.
I removed them and was surprised that apt removed kdepim + kmail as well.
Afterwards I reinstalled kdepim and saw that apt wants to draw in a lot
of *-dev packages.
# Actual results
merkaba:~> LANG=C apt install --no-install-recommends kdepim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
kdepim-runtime kinit-dev kio-dev kio-ldap kio-sieve kio-smtp kmail knotes konsolekalendar kontact korganizer kross-dev libboost-thread-dev libical2-dev
libkf5akonadi-dev libkf5akonadinotes-dev libkf5auth-dev libkf5bookmarks-dev libkf5calendarcore-dev libkf5calendarutils-dev libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5contacts-dev
libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5emoticons-dev libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev libkf5jobwidgets-dev libkf5kcmutils-dev libkf5kdelibs4support-dev
libkf5khtml-dev libkf5kio-dev libkf5mediaplayer-dev libkf5mime-dev libkf5newstuff-dev libkf5notifications-dev libkf5notifyconfig-dev libkf5parts-dev libkf5pty-dev
libkf5service-dev libkf5style-dev libkf5su-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev libkf5webkit-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkolab-dev libkolabxml-dev libkpimgapicalendar5
libkpimgapicontacts5 libkpimgapicore5 libkpimgapitasks5 libkpimkdav5 libqt5quicktest5 libqt5webengine5 libqt5webkit5-dev libssl1.0-dev libxerces-c-dev
qtdeclarative5-dev
Suggested packages:
clamav procmail gnokii libxerces-c-doc
Recommended packages:
kdepim-doc mbox-importer pim-data-exporter pim-sieve-editor libkf5auth-doc libkf5bookmarks-doc libkf5configwidgets-doc libkf5coreaddons-doc libkf5crash-doc
libkf5emoticons-doc libkf5guiaddons-doc libkf5iconthemes-doc libkf5jobwidgets-doc libkf5kcmutils-doc libkf5kio-doc libkf5newstuff-doc libkf5notifications-doc
libkf5notifyconfig-doc libkf5parts-doc libkf5pty-doc libkf5service-doc libkf5su-doc libkf5textwidgets-doc libkf5xmlgui-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kdepim kdepim-runtime kinit-dev kio-dev kio-ldap kio-sieve kio-smtp kmail knotes konsolekalendar kontact korganizer kross-dev libboost-thread-dev libical2-dev
libkf5akonadi-dev libkf5akonadinotes-dev libkf5auth-dev libkf5bookmarks-dev libkf5calendarcore-dev libkf5calendarutils-dev libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5contacts-dev
libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5emoticons-dev libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev libkf5jobwidgets-dev libkf5kcmutils-dev libkf5kdelibs4support-dev
libkf5khtml-dev libkf5kio-dev libkf5mediaplayer-dev libkf5mime-dev libkf5newstuff-dev libkf5notifications-dev libkf5notifyconfig-dev libkf5parts-dev libkf5pty-dev
libkf5service-dev libkf5style-dev libkf5su-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev libkf5webkit-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkolab-dev libkolabxml-dev libkpimgapicalendar5
libkpimgapicontacts5 libkpimgapicore5 libkpimgapitasks5 libkpimkdav5 libqt5quicktest5 libqt5webengine5 libqt5webkit5-dev libssl1.0-dev libxerces-c-dev
qtdeclarative5-dev
0 upgraded, 59 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.5 MB/17.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 95.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Also the version number of the KDEPIM meta package suggests that is still
for 16.04 instead of 17.08 of KDEPIM.
# Expected results
As kdepim is about the pre-compiled, binary version of KDEPIM I´d expect
to depend on no *-dev packages. I´d expect these to be installed as build
dependencies in case I want to build KDEPIM myself.
Of course it may be that it is not kdepim package itself drawing in these
development packages, but some package it depends on does this.
Also I´d expect the version number of the meta package reflect which
version of KDEPIM is going to be installed.
Thank you,
Martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-rc5-tp520-btrfstrim+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages kdepim depends on:
ii accountwizard 4:17.08.3-1
ii akonadiconsole 4:17.08.3-1
ii akregator 4:17.08.3-1
ii blogilo 4:17.08.3-1
ii kaddressbook 4:17.08.3-1
ii kalarm 4:17.08.3-1
ii kdepim-runtime 4:17.08.3-1
ii kleopatra 4:17.08.3-1
ii kmail 4:17.08.3-1
ii knotes 4:17.08.3-1
ii konsolekalendar 4:17.08.3-1
ii kontact 4:17.08.3-1
ii korganizer 4:17.08.3-1
Versions of packages kdepim recommends:
ii kdepim-addons 17.08.3-1
pn kdepim-doc <none>
kdepim suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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