reassign 495567 gnucash retitle 495567 gnucash: Please make HBCI support optional (for systems with little disk space) thanks
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:27:41AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Not all users need HBCI, and 25.9MB is a lot on old machines or other > > > machines with little disk space. So, HBCI support should be optional. > > > > Of the non-Recommended packages involved, > > FYI, recommended packages packages were automatically installed by > apt-get. [...] Yes, this is by intention. Maintainers should carefully decide whether they will have less effort (i.e. really troublesome bug reports) with having recommended packages installed by default or having suggested packages not installed by default. For now Thomas Bushnell decided to have even less effort with having mandatory HBCI support in the gnucash package. > > the only really big one is libaqbanking-data, and that's big because > > it has a giant database of all the banks in the world and their bank > > ID. This part, at least, should be optional, but it would be up to > > the aqbanking maintainer to decide how feasible that is. > > So, let's reassign the bug to libaqbanking20. > > Since libaqbanking-data contains *configuration* files, it should > probably be sufficient to move libaqbanking-data from "Depends:" > to "Recommends:" in libaqbanking20. This is an absolute no-go. If installed the AqBanking library *needs* those files in order to work properly. Hence I reassigned the bug back to Gnucash. The correct way to make HBCI support optional is to split the package and distribute the AqBanking plugin as a separate (recommended or suggested) package. Regards Micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
