Bug#743870: Re: Bug#743870: Excessive dependencies required on upgrade

2014-04-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
[ re-sent because I forgot to cc the BTS ] On Thursday 10 April 2014 13:22:45 you wrote: > I consider this a problem because it's a lot of packages that simply are > not going to be used on these systems. Yes. A few MB of disks are wasted. Even on ARM system running on a SD card, this is no long

Bug#743870: Excessive dependencies required on upgrade

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Boot
On 09/04/14 19:14, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Hello > > On Monday 07 April 2014 16:44:47 you wrote: >> Together, these are responsible for pulling in 53 PERL packages as >> dependencies of lcdproc on my system. I feel that this is excessive, >> especially considering the relatively minor functional

Bug#743870: Excessive dependencies required on upgrade

2014-04-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello On Monday 07 April 2014 16:44:47 you wrote: > Together, these are responsible for pulling in 53 PERL packages as > dependencies of lcdproc on my system. I feel that this is excessive, > especially considering the relatively minor functionality that these > packages provide (namely, to be abl

Bug#743870: Excessive dependencies required on upgrade

2014-04-07 Thread Chris Boot
Package: lcdproc Version: 0.5.6-1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, The version of lcdproc currently in sid depends on two new packages: - libconfig-model-lcdproc-perl (>= 2.040) - libconfig-model-perl (>= 2.037) Together, these are responsible for pulling in 53 PERL packages as dependencies of