On 01/06/16 23:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Wed 01 Jun 2016 23:25:51 +0200, wrote: >> On 26/04/16 02:07, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Mon 25 Apr 2016 17:48:02 +0200, wrote: >>>> Do you think demoting libgail-common and libatk-adaptor to Recommends would >>>> be fine at this stage, so that they are installed by default but can be >>>> removed if desired (e.g. if/when there are no gtk2 apps installed)? >>> >>> That's a possibility. But we can also do like for qt4: since >>> accessibility is now supposed to be enabled by default, we could >>> make libgtk2.0-0 itself depend on libgail-common, i.e. the toolkit >>> itself makes sure it has the tools to make itself accessible. That >>> way, libgail-common will get installed whenever a gtk2 application is >>> installed for some reason. >> >> I'd like that. However that creates a dependency loop as libgail-common >> depends >> on libgail18 which depends on libgtk2.0-0. >> >> Folding libgail into libgtk isn't an option as they don't necessarily keep >> the >> same soname. >> >> Any ideas? > > In the Qt4 case, we used a Recommends. Here libgtk2.0-0 would recommend > libgail-common.
Oh, sure, that sounds good. I'm busy this week but we'll try to look at it when I have time (probably not until next week). Cheers, Emilio
