Bug#623660: iceape: is the libxp-dev build-dependency necessary?

[Drew Parsons]

Source: iceape
Version: 2.0.13-1
Severity: minor

You have a build-depends on libxp-dev, but no dependency on libxp6 in
your binary package.  This likely means you don't actually need
libxp-dev. The build-depends may have turned up historically when the
monolithic Xfree86 package was split into X.org modules (when the
all-encompassing xlibs package was split into separate libx*
packages).

libxp is a library which provides an API that enables client programs
to access and use an Xprint server. The xprint package is obsolete and
scheduled for removal.  Since we're getting rid of xprint, one could
argue it makes sense to get rid of libxp as well.

This bug has been filed to prompt you to check if you really want
Xprint (libxp-dev) support in your package.

We'll leave libxp in the archives for the time being until you and the
other packages using it have determined whether you want to keep the
dependency. But we'll be removing xprint itself and other related
packages now.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash