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On mer, nov 12, 2014 at 03:59:49 -0500, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Package: jansson
> Version: 2.7-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu vivid ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When looking at the Depends for each of the binary packages shipped by the
> jansson source, I noticed libjs-backbone. This package sticked out in Ubuntu
> because it's the only package that wasn't in the "main" component.
> 
> I dug in a bit more, and while trying to see if libjs-backbone was really
> required I noticed it's not used anywhere by the documentation itself; unlike
> other depends (jquery, etc.), it's not sourced by the html at all; a quick
> grep for "backbone" in /usr/share/doc/libjansson-doc/ proves this.
> 
> This made me conclude that while libjs-backbone may have been required before,
> it is no longer a requirement in version 2.7, and may thus be removed so as
> not to install additional packages for no reason.

Right, I just pushed a fix to git. Basically I enabled the dh_sphinxdoc helper
script, which automatically creates the symlinks and generates the necessay
dependencies so that we don't have to do it manually.

Cheers

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