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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