Bug#550918: finch: dependencies pull in almost a complete X server

2012-01-13 Thread Dean Evans
Apologies for my earlier misunderstanding of the problem. I have read the bug ticket on pidgin.im and there doesn't seem to be any interest in moving the voice/video parts out of libpurple. I'm wondering what the potential issues of having a separate libpurple for finch (libpurple-finch?) would

Bug#550918: finch: dependencies pull in almost a complete X server

2012-01-11 Thread Dean Evans
I would like to raise this bug again. It is possible to compile finch with out the requirement for X server etc libraries, I believe the important config flag is --disable-gtkui. Is there any chance this could be changed for finch? I am a novice at packaging, but I'm prepared to dig deeper into

Bug#550918: finch: dependencies pull in almost a complete X server

2009-10-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dmitri Gribenko wrote: Package: finch Version: 2.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist finch depends on libgstfarsight0.10-0, which depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, which depends on gconf2, libx11-6, libxdamage1 etc. Personally I don't mind having an X installation on a headless ssh-only machine

Bug#550918: finch: dependencies pull in almost a complete X server

2009-10-13 Thread Dmitri Gribenko
Package: finch Version: 2.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist finch depends on libgstfarsight0.10-0, which depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, which depends on gconf2, libx11-6, libxdamage1 etc. Personally I don't mind having an X installation on a headless ssh-only machine (hard disk space is cheap).