[debhelper-devel] Bug#823990: dh_gconf no longer needs to add gconf2 dependency to misc:Depends?

[Ari Pollak]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160403
Severity: wishlist

dh_gconf still adds gconf2 to ${misc:Depends}, but AFAICT that's a legacy
holdout and is no longer needed anymore. The gconf2 package uses triggers to
update its database with new schemas; if you install gconf2, it will
rebuild the database from scratch anyway. So for something like pidgin, which
adds URL handlers to gconf (not used by GNOME 3 anyway) but doesn't need gconf
for normal operation, that's just an extraneous dependency that just seems to
irritate certain users.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.26-8
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.016-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.4
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.4
ii  file                     1:5.25-2
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.4
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.2-1
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201605

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