Am Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 08:33:57PM +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > >> gnumed-client depends on python3-pip. Why? > >> > >> The only use is in external-tools/check-prerequisites.py trying to > >> download the > >> pysvg module last updated in 2012, and not ported to Python3 ... > > > > The helper script external-tools/check-prerequisites.py > > certainly does not do anything obnoxious like "trying to > > download the pysvg module". It merely tells the user how to > > retrieve the proper version thereof. > > well, then it can tell to install python3-pip as well.
It now does, thanks for the suggestiong. > > Quite apart from that the dependency can safely be demoted to > > Recommends:, or even Suggests:, if the former is still > > coupling too tightly. > > just remove it, or package the dependency properly. Is there anything fundamentally, conceptually *wrong* (not just not recommendable) with Suggests: python3-pip ? Best, Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B