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and subject line Closing bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #680583,
regarding desktop-base: please demote librsvg2-common to Recommends:
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Package: desktop-base
Version: 6.0.5squeeze1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: events-hardware
Hi there!
While working on BabelBox [1], I discovered that desktop-base Depends:
on librsvg2-common:
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desktop-base (4.0.0.1) experimental; urgency=high
[...]
[ Loic Minier ]
* Depend on librsvg2-common for SVG support.
-- Gustavo Franco <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:08:41 -0200
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[1] <http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]>
However, so far I have failed to understand what "SVG support" means,
given that it does not seems to be needed at all and actually it brings
a lot of (useless) dependencies:
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# apt-get update
[...]
Reading package lists... Done
# apt-get install desktop-base
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dbus defoma desktop-base fontconfig hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0
libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
libcairo2 libcroco3 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdbus-1-3 libfont-freetype-perl
libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg62 libpango1.0-0
libpango1.0-common libpng12-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libthai-data
libthai0 libtiff4 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1
libxcursor1 libxrandr2 shared-mime-info x-ttcidfont-conf
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 62.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
# apt-get --no-install-recommends install desktop-base
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
defoma desktop-base fontconfig libatk1.0-0 libavahi-client3
libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcroco3 libcups2
libdatrie1 libdbus-1-3 libglib2.0-0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg62 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpng12-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4
libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxrandr2
shared-mime-info
0 upgraded, 33 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 53.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
# apt-get --download-only install destkop-base
[...]
Download complete and in download only mode
# dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/
desktop-base_6.0.5squeeze1_all.deb
[..]
Unpacking desktop-base (from .../desktop-base_6.0.5squeeze1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: desktop-base: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you
requested:
desktop-base depends on librsvg2-common; however:
Package librsvg2-common is not installed.
Setting up desktop-base (6.0.5squeeze1) ...
Configuration file `/etc/default/kdm.d/10_desktop-base', does not exist on
system.
Installing new config file as you requested.
update-alternatives: using
/usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-wallpaper.svg to provide
/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background (desktop-background) in auto
mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-splash.svg
to provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-splash (desktop-splash) in
auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-grub.png to
provide /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png (desktop-grub) in auto
mode.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
done
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
#
=====
At reboot, GRUB2 shows the SpaceFun theme. The same is true for wheezy:
desktop-base *installs* fine without librsvg2-common. IMHO this
dependency should be reflected by those packages *using* SVG files, not
by desktop-base, which only ships them:
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Index: changelog
===================================================================
--- changelog (revision 294)
+++ changelog (working copy)
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@
* Fix typo in plymouth theme. (Closes: #679357)
* Updated ink-splated kde wallpaper, to fix alignment issues.
- -- Eshat Cakar <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:08:35 +0200
+ [ Luca Capello ]
+ * debian/control:
+ + demote librsvg2-common to Recommends (Closes: #NNNNNN).
+ --
+
desktop-base (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Eshat Cakar ]
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Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (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/dash
Versions of packages desktop-base depends on:
pn librsvg2-common <none> (no description available)
desktop-base recommends no packages.
Versions of packages desktop-base suggests:
pn gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 <none> (no description available)
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--- Begin Message ---
Reading the history of this bug, I don't think there's anything that can
really be done on this specific issue since librsvg2-common is clearly
needed for converting SVGs to to raster images, closing bug...
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