Package: nmap
Version: 6.0

I went to install the nmap package on my new Debian 7 system, and noticed a
plethora of required additional packages. I checked the required libraries
for nmap, and it's clear there was a mishap when packaging the version of
nmap included in Wheezy. I suspect the graphical nmap requirements fell
into the standard nmap package inadvertently.

root@testhost1:~# apt-get install nmap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-droid fonts-liberation ghostscript
  gnuplot gnuplot-nox groff gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme imagemagick
  imagemagick-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
  libblas3 libblas3gf libcairo2 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1
  libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libfontconfig1 libgd2-noxpm
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgomp1 libgs9
  libgs9-common libijs-0.35 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0
  liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 liblinear-tools liblinear1
  liblqr-1-0 libltdl7 liblua5.1-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickcore5-extra
  libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpaper-utils
  libpaper1 libquadmath0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsvm-tools
libthai-data
  libthai0 libtiff4 libwmf0.2-7 libxaw7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxft2
  libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm poppler-data psutils
  ttf-dejavu-core ufraw-batch
Suggested packages:
  ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x hpijs gnuplot-doc imagemagick-doc autotrace
  cups-bsd lpr lprng curl enscript ffmpeg gimp grads hp2xx html2ps
libwmf-bin
  mplayer povray radiance sane-utils texlive-base-bin transfig xdg-utils
  cups-common exiv2 libgd-tools libjasper-runtime liblcms-utils
liblcms2-utils
  liblinear-dev ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
  ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp librsvg2-bin poppler-utils
  fonts-japanese-mincho fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic
  fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming
fonts-unfonts-core
  ufraw
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-droid fonts-liberation ghostscript
  gnuplot gnuplot-nox groff gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme imagemagick
  imagemagick-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
  libblas3 libblas3gf libcairo2 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1
  libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libfontconfig1 libgd2-noxpm
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgomp1 libgs9
  libgs9-common libijs-0.35 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0
  liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 liblinear-tools liblinear1
  liblqr-1-0 libltdl7 liblua5.1-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickcore5-extra
  libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpaper-utils
  libpaper1 libquadmath0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsvm-tools
libthai-data
  libthai0 libtiff4 libwmf0.2-7 libxaw7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxft2
  libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm nmap poppler-data psutils
  ttf-dejavu-core ufraw-batch


I suggest removing the extreme package dependencies to correct this
behavior.

I am running the latest version of Debian 7 Wheezy with the following
kernel:
3.2.0-4-amd64

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