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dbus package

libdbus-1-3 shouldn't recommend dbus, makes up a heavy minimal seed

Bug #270500 reported by Thierry Carrez
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
dbus (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dbus

Minimal seed contains wpasupplicant, which depends on libdbus-1-3
Then libdbus-1-3 recommends dbus, resulting in the following packages being pulled in the minimal seed :

dbus
|- consolekit
| |- libck-connector0
| |- libdbus-glib-1-2
| | |- libglib2.0-0
| | | |- (libglib2.0-data)
| |- (libpam-ck-connector)
| |- libpolkit2
| |- libx11-6
| | |- libx11-data
| | |- libxcb-xlib0
| | | |- libxcb1
| | | | |- libxau6
| | | | |- libxdmcp6
|- libexpat1
|- (dbus-x11)

This pulls X libraries on server installs where they should not be needed by default.
Solution: downgrade the dbus Recommends to a "Suggests".

Revision history for this message
Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

Proposed fix

Revision history for this message
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Since our init daemon is about to start depending on D-Bus, this isn't something we plan to fix! D-Bus is small and light enough for the minimal seed, and is rapidly becoming a defacto dependency of many plumbing layer-level tools.

Changed in dbus:
status: New → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

(You may wish to refile this bug against appropriate pieces for dragging in X libraries)

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