On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:41:31PM +0100, Dave Beckett wrote: > > Would it be feasible to rebuild libgpewidget1 without the dependency on > > libcairo1 and libpixman1? If so, that might be a solution. Otherwise, if > > the maintainer feels that these libraries truly are not suitable for > > release, I'm not sure what option we have other than removing the lot. > There seem to be some other packages dependending on libcairo1 too. > $ apt-cache rdepends libcairo1 > libcairo1 > Reverse Depends: > oregano > libpoppler0-glib > libpoppler0 > libgpewidget1 > libcairo1-dev > evince > $ apt-cache rdepends libpoppler0 > libpoppler0 > Reverse Depends: > libpoppler0-qt > libpoppler0-glib > libpoppler-dev > evince > $ apt-cache rdepends evince > evince > Reverse Depends: poppler isn't significant here, it's not in sarge. > My preference is to remove cairo but I don't see it as a terrible > problem if it stays, but I defer to debian-release people. Given that there are packages that depend on it and which people want to see included in sarge, I would only remove it if you felt this was absolutely necessary or if it was RC-buggy. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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