Tormod Volden <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Göran Weinholt wrote: >> >> Perhaps there are other screensavers that also use it. I want to make >> the point that libwww-perl is not necessary for xscreensaver to work, >> and therefore it should be in Recommends rather than Depends. By default >> Recommends are installed by apt, so moving libwww-perl to Recommends >> still solves the problem that you wanted to solve. > > But, if not having libwww-perl installed breaks parts of xscreensaver, > doesn't that call for a Depends? I would agree to Recommends if the > functionality in question would be disabled gracefully, but for now > some screensavers just fail and spew out an error message.
They actually fail? If that's the case, then please close this bug. What I've observed is that those screensavers that need an image, e.g. Ripples, will use a Television-style color bar image instead. I don't believe I can give you any more input on this issue, except to say that the script that fails contains some interesting language: grep Larry /usr/bin/xscreensaver-getimage-file Regards, -- Göran Weinholt <[email protected]> Debian Developer, emeritus
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