Public bug reported:
libsignon-glib1 should not depend on signond.
1. Empathy and Shotwell are built with UOA support which gives them a
dependency on libsignon-glib1. The UOA support is not easily split out
(we looked at it last week) into a separate package.
2. signond depends on about 7.5 MB of Qt libraries and recommends
signon-ui which depends on over 45MB of libqtwebkit4 and libqtgui4. It's
unreasonable to expect that a GNOME or XFCE distro (like Ubuntu GNOME or
Ubuntu Studio) should be required to include 50+ MB of unrelated
libraries for an optional feature that the Ubuntu packages happen to be
built with.
3. There is precedence for having libraries not depend on the underlying
service. libmysqlclient18 doesn't depend on mysql-server. Even more
relevant, Empathy & Shotwell are also built with Unity integration and
therefore depend on libunity9. libunity9 does not depend on Unity and
adds less than 1.5 MB to those packages.
4. Nothing else depends on signond in Ubuntu yet. To do this properly,
we need to make sure that distros (or users) who have other UOA stuff
installed stiill get signond. I think having libaccount-plugin-1.0-0
depend on signond will be sufficient since these packages already depend
on libaccount-plugin-1.0-0:
gnome-control-center-signon
mcp-account-manager-uoa
libaccount-plugin-google
libaccount-plugin-generic-oauth
libaccount-plugin-1.0-dev
account-plugin-fitbit
gir1.2-accountplugin-1.0
It's impossible for users to really use UOA without those packages
installed.
Merge proposals attached. They were initially rejected but should be
reconsidered.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libsignon-glib1 1.10daily13.06.05.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-5.12-generic 3.9.5
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: btrfs raid6_pq zlib_deflate xor ufs qnx4 hfsplus hfs
minix ntfs msdos jfs xfs libcrc32c reiserfs ext2 overlayfs ath3k nls_utf8 isofs
parport_pc ppdev rfcomm bnep joydev snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_conexant
intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel cryptd
uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core videodev arc4
snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event btusb bluetooth snd_rawmidi ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath
mac80211 microcode i915 snd_seq cfg80211 drm_kms_helper psmouse serio_raw drm
snd_seq_device snd_timer lpc_ich snd mei toshiba_acpi i2c_algo_bit soundcore
sparse_keymap toshiba_bluetooth wmi lp parport mac_hid video atl1c ahci libahci
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 16 09:44:04 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-14 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64
(20130613)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libsignon-glib
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: libsignon-glib (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy
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