• Bug#266078: The Bug report

    From Bernd Donner@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 13:30:13 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Sorry, some garbage remained at the end of the original posting.

    The package depends on libbluetooth1 and on libgnokii2. But kaddressbook can
    be usefull without having bluetooth or a nokia handy.

    I suggest to change these dependencies into recommendations or in case this is not possible to split the package in two packages
    kaddressbook
    and
    kaddressbook-gnokii-bluetooth


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  • From Adeodato =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sim=F3?=@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 15:00:13 2004
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    * Bernd Donner [Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:11:20 +0200]:
    Sorry, some garbage remained at the end of the original posting.

    The package depends on libbluetooth1 and on libgnokii2. But kaddressbook can be usefull without having bluetooth or a nokia handy.

    and you can have libbluetooth1 and libgnokii2 installed and your
    system will run fine.

    I mean, is there a reason (apart from libgnokii2 wasting ~1Mb of
    space!) to not allow them to be installed? They just depend on libc6,
    so it's not like they pull anything to be installed.

    thanks,

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  • From Bernd Donner@1:229/2 to you on Wed Aug 18 16:40:17 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:33, you wrote:
    * Bernd Donner [Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:11:20 +0200]:
    Sorry, some garbage remained at the end of the original posting.

    The package depends on libbluetooth1 and on libgnokii2. But kaddressbook can be usefull without having bluetooth or a nokia handy.

    and you can have libbluetooth1 and libgnokii2 installed and your
    system will run fine.

    I mean, is there a reason (apart from libgnokii2 wasting ~1Mb of
    space!) to not allow them to be installed? They just depend on libc6,
    so it's not like they pull anything to be installed.

    thanks,

    No there is no other reason. I just cannot imagine that these dependencies comply with the debian policy. I quote from http://people.debian.org/~jaldhar/make_package2.html : "Use this if your program absolutely will not run unless a particular package is present." Furthermore is still consider wasting 1MB of disk space quite a lot. If every package would have such a behavior this would be some 300MB. Currently I'm compiling kdepim from deb-src to see wether there are any difficulties in creating an kaddressbook as I have proposed before.



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