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

[Niels Thykier]

On Tue, 10 May 2016 21:58:36 -0400 Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> [...]

Hi Joss,

Can you confirm that this dependency on gconf2 is now unnecessary?  At
first glance I cannot see a need for it now that the autoscripts have
been removed.

Thanks,
~Niels