Subject: postgresql-9.1-postgis: postgis dependencies are very strong
Package: postgresql-9.1-postgis
Version: 1.5.3-2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Currently postgresql-9.1-postgis depends on postgis, and postgis
includes the gui application shp2pgsql-gui. This means that to install
the postgresql-9.1-postgis package I need to pull in gtk and other
dependencies for running a graphical application. For this reason I
think it would make sense to separate out shp2pgsql-gui from the
postgis package.

Another option, possibly in addition to the suggestion above, would be
to make postgres-9.1-postgis recommend the postgis package rather than
depend. However then you still can't use just the non-gui shp2pgsql
and pgsql2shp programs without installing all the dependencies the
-gui program requires.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages postgresql-9.1-postgis depends on:
ii  libc6           2.13-23
ii  libgeos-c1      3.2.2-3
ii  libproj0        4.7.0-1
ii  libxml2         2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii  postgis         1.5.3-2
ii  postgresql-9.1  9.1.2-2

postgresql-9.1-postgis recommends no packages.

postgresql-9.1-postgis suggests no packages.



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