[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#867389: Please describe why it recommends python-nova

[Enrico Zini]

Package: python-novnc
Version: 1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-6
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for maintaining novnc.

I have installed novnc to prototype exporting a simple embedded UI to the web,
and I was surprised to see that it brought in a vast set of other python
libraries. I then figured out that those are the dependencies of python-nova,
which I understand is some distributed computing part of openstack, and that
novnc recommends python-nova.

Given that the set of dependencies of python-nova is so extensive, can you
please mention in novnc's description what those are for, and if novnc can
reasonably be used without nova?

Or, if novnc can reasonably be used without nova, would you consider
downgrading the recommends to a suggests?


Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-novnc depends on:
ii  python              2.7.13-2
ii  python-oslo.config  1:3.17.0-3

Versions of packages python-novnc recommends:
ii  python-nova  2:14.0.0-4

python-novnc suggests no packages.

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