On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:32:10 +0100 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= COUDERC wrote: > control: severity -1 wishlist > > Le mardi 10 janvier 2023, 11:21:31 CET Hendrik Lehmbruch a écrit : > > Package: kwrite > > Version: 4:22.12.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > Dear Hendrik, > > > Is there a reason why kwrite depends on kate? > > Yes, if you look at the libraries required by the kwrite binary, you’ll see > that it depends on libkateprivate provided by our kate package. > > $ ldd $(which kwrite) | grep kate > libkateprivate.so.22.12.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkateprivate.so.22.12.1 > (0x00007f3c279c2000) > > > While kate did not depends on > > kwrite, both depends on ktexteditor-katepart, but ktexeditor-katepart did > > not > > depend on both. > > > It should be possible to install kwrite without installing kate (or remove > > kate > > without removing kwrite), and if i understand this right -> https://kate- > > editor.org/post/2022/2022-03-31-kate-ate-kwrite/ <- it should work. > > It would be possible to make it work the way you want by splitting the kate > package and shipping libkateprivate as a separate binary package. > It’s too late for the next bookworm release to do so, the library transition > freeze is around the corner (tomorrow). > > You can try and ping the bug report after the bookworm release if that’s > important to you. > I personally don’t have a strong incentive working on this but if you or > someone else feels like doing the split, patches are welcome. > > > Happy hacking ! > -- > Aurélien > > > >
i know this bug's old, but it still would be nice to have.
