Not using a Depends is a Maintainer decision, not a bug, there is no reason to force everybody to install that lib when only few users need it. The gaim package "Suggests" it which indicates it can be useful
** Changed in: gaim (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- 2.0 beta6: various problems because oscar->icq https://launchpad.net/bugs/88647 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs