Bug#496770: installing wireshark installs perl-doc
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14
while installing debian lenny beta2, i also decided to install
wireshark. i noticed that
apt-get install wireshark
also installed perl-doc package, which consumes 14.1 MB of disk space.
in my opinion, it is a bug somewhere, that installing wireshark also
installs perl-doc:
root@Lenny-2:~# apt-get install wireshark
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp cpp-4.3 dbus dbus-x11 defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config gconf2
gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring hicolor-icon-theme libasound2 libatk1.0-0
libatk1.0-data libavc1394-0 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie0 libdbus-1-3
libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreebob0 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4
libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libgmp3c2 libgnome-keyring0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libice6
libidl0 libiec61883-0 libjack0 libjpeg62 libldap-2.4-2 libmpfr1ldbl
liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libportaudio2 libraw1394-8 libsm6
libstartup-notification0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libxcb-render-util0
libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxfont1
libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxrender1 perl perl-doc
perl-modules psmisc sgml-base ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra
ucf x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xml-core
Suggested packages:
cpp-doc gcc-4.3-locales defoma-doc dfontmgr psfontmgr libasound2-plugins
cups-common libfreetype6-dev librsvg2-common jackd ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp libraw1394-doc
libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl groff sgml-base-doc
debhelper
Recommended packages:
libft-perl
because after installing wireshark, i can remove perl-doc without any
other package getting removed:
root@Lenny-2:~# apt-get remove perl-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
perl-doc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 14.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 18788 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing perl-doc ...
Removing `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc'
Processing triggers for man-db ...
i also tried to find, if any of the packages that got installed when i
installed wireshark would depend on perl-doc, but didn't find any:
root@Lenny-2:~# dpkg -s cpp cpp-4.3 dbus dbus-x11 defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config gconf2 gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring hicolor-icon-theme libadns1 libadns1-bin libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavc1394-0 libcairo2 libcap2 libcups2 libdatrie0 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreebob0 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgmp3c2 libgnome-keyring0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libice6 libidl0 libiec61883-0 libjack0 libjpeg62 libldap-2.4-2 liblua5.1-0 libmpfr1ldbl liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libportaudio2 libraw1394-8 libsm6 libstartup-notification0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxrender1 perl perl-doc perl-modules psmisc sgml-base tcpdump tshark ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ucf wireshark wireshark-common x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xml-core | egrep Depends | egrep perl-doc
so i suspect that there is a bug in apt-get command, but i may be
wrong. anyhow, perl-doc should not get installed when i install
wireshark.
-- juha
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