[Pkg-graphite-maint] Bug#739517: graphite-web: Depends artificially on unneeded and deprecated SQLite 2 Python driver (python-sqlite package)

[Ramiro Morales]

Package: graphite-web
Version: 0.9.12+debian-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

graphite-web is a Django web app. It uses SQLite for the standard DB layer
only (AFAICS it has doesn't have any other DB access functionality outside
of Django ORM.)

The Debian package of graphite-web depends on python-sqlite which links
and provides access to the old SQLite C lib version 2.x. But Django 
doesn't support (and never has) SQLite 2.x but rather version 3.x.

jessie ships with a default Python version that already includes a 
working SQLite3 stack in the standard library so the erroneous
dependency should be simply removed.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash