• Bug#878644: x11-xserver-utils: Installation requires unneeded dependenc

    From Tomas Matejicek@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 13:10:02 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Package: x11-xserver-utils
    Version: 7.7+7+b1
    Severity: important

    Dear Maintainer,

    I installed minimal Debian system from netinst iso.
    Then, I installed Xorg this way:
    apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg xinit xterm

    Now, I would like to install x11-xserver-utils. This package is 160 KB big.
    But when I try
    apt-get install --no-install-recommends x11-xserver-utils
    it wants to install 27 MB of data. This is WRONG.

    It reports that the package needs to download and install (among others)
    these additional packages: cpp cpp-6 libisl15

    I do not see why to install cpp. This is WRONG.

    I expect you to drop cpp dependencies because it should not be there.
    Maybe move it to *recommends*, but no reason to require it.

    Thank you for fixing this.

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 9.2
    APT prefers stable-updates
    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)

    Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

    Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
    ii cpp 4:6.3.0-4
    ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
    ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
    ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
    ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
    ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b4
    ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
    ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1
    ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
    ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-2
    ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
    ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
    ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
    ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2

    x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.

    Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
    pn cairo-5c <none>
    pn nickle <none>
    pn xorg-docs-core <none>

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