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and subject line Re: Bug#494824: sensord: upgrade of the package wants to
install a lot new stuff
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Package: sensord
Version: 1:3.0.2-1+b1
Severity: important
an upgrade of this package to 3.0.2-1+b2 wants to install a lot new packages
with no obvious connection to the sensord:
# apt-get dist-upgrade -V -u
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
defoma (0.11.10-0.2)
fontconfig (2.6.0-1)
fontconfig-config (2.6.0-1)
libcairo2 (1.6.4-6)
libdatrie0 (0.1.3-2)
libfontconfig1 (2.6.0-1)
libfontenc1 (1.0.4-3)
libpango1.0-0 (1.20.5-1)
libpango1.0-common (1.20.5-1)
libpixman-1-0 (0.10.0-2)
librrd4 (1.3.1-3)
libthai-data (0.1.9-4)
libthai0 (0.1.9-4)
libttf2 (1.4pre.cvs20060210-1)
libxcb-render-util0 (0.2.1+git1-1)
libxcb-render0 (1.1-1.1)
libxfont1 (1.3.3-1)
libxft2 (2.1.12-3)
libxrender1 (0.9.4-2)
ttf-dejavu (2.25-3)
ttf-dejavu-core (2.25-3)
ttf-dejavu-extra (2.25-3)
x-ttcidfont-conf (29)
xfonts-encodings (1.0.2-3)
xfonts-utils (7.4+1)
The following packages will be upgraded:
sensord (3.0.2-1+b1 => 3.0.2-1+b2)
1 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7724kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sensord depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii librrd2 1.2.28-1 Time-series data storage and displ
ii libsensors4 1:3.0.2-1+b2 library to read temperature/voltag
ii lm-sensors 1:3.0.2-1+b2 utilities to read temperature/volt
sensord recommends no packages.
sensord suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hi,
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:46:49PM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> > OTOH, when looking at the sensord package description I can not find any
> > pointer to rrdtool, so maybe the dependency on librrd should be made
> > optional if that can be done without too much efforts.
> >
>
> I don't think it is a solution, as it is actually one of the main
> feature of sensord, and given the bug reports I receive about it, it is
> a really used feature.
Well, this is up to you to decide - I don't even use sensord, so this
was just a guess ;-) Anyway, I then suggest to mention that feature in
the package description.
> IMHO, we can just close this bug report, as there are actually a valid
> reason for those packages to be installed.
I agree that this is not a bug. Closing.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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