[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#469732: libglpk0: excessive install dependencies

[Larry Doolittle]

Package: libglpk0
Version: 4.25-1
Severity: wishlist


The 4.27-1 update includes:
  * debian/control: Build-depend on libiodbc2-dev and
    libmysqlclient15-dev in order to get MathPROG support
Apparently this also adds to the install-time dependencies.
Upgrading to this version, apt-get tells me:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  libiodbc2 libmysqlclient15off mysql-common
[chop]
After this operation, 5124kB of additional disk space will be used.

Note that the reason I have libglpk0 on my machine is to run
Octave (octave3.0 depends on "libglpk0 (>= 4.25)").

Since octave runs fine with libglpk0-4.25, I fail to see why
5 Megabytes of new code is required as of 4.27.  I'd like to
see Debian dependencies granular enough that stuff like this
can be optional.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libglpk0 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-9          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgmp3c2                 2:4.2.2+dfsg-2 Multiprecision arithmetic library

libglpk0 recommends no packages.

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