[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#768626: mc should not depend on e2fslibs

[Wilfried Klaebe]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.13-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I think mc should (no longer) depend on e2fslibs. Today, many systems
don't necessarily use ext2/3/4 anymore. Virtual Private Servers based
on LXC containers make good use of btrfs subvolumes. So many installs
of mc will never get close to any ext2/3/4 filesystem.

Please change mc to, at most, recommend e2fslibs.

Regards,
Wilfried

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing-updates'), (90, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.12-1
ii  libc6         2.19-12
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.42.0-2
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6.1
ii  libslang2     2.3.0-2
ii  libssh2-1     1.4.3-4
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.13-2

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.57
ii  perl          5.20.1-2
ii  unzip         6.0-12

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                        <none>
ii  bzip2                      1.0.6-7
pn  catdvi | texlive-binaries  <none>
pn  dbview                     <none>
pn  djvulibre-bin              <none>
ii  file                       1:5.20-1
pn  genisoimage                <none>
pn  gv                         <none>
ii  imagemagick                8:6.8.9.9-2
pn  odt2txt                    <none>
pn  poppler-utils              <none>
ii  python                     2.7.8-2
pn  python-boto                <none>
pn  python-tz                  <none>
ii  w3m                        0.5.3-19
pn  xpdf | pdf-viewer          <none>
pn  zip                        <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mc/extfs/extfs.ini 2b142d89658b59881d7287e254bb30cc [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/mc/extfs/extfs.ini 2b142d89658b59881d7287e254bb30cc'
/etc/mc/extfs/sfs.ini 316dc92f3fdec60a7aaf0866edc361db [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/mc/extfs/sfs.ini 316dc92f3fdec60a7aaf0866edc361db'

-- no debconf information