On 15.10.2014 18:17, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Package: freeciv-gtk > Version: 2.4.3-1 > Severity: normal > > The GTK+2 version of the freeciv client will not work without > gtk2-engines-pixbuf. Symptoms: the client hangs doing nothing, not > refreshing its window and not responding to user input. The > ~/.xsession-errors file contains: > > Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap" > > which is the only clue I had about a possible cause. > > This happened on my 8-yer-old son's laptop, which is a 13-year-old > Apple iBook where I installed Debian Jessie (testing) and configured > apt *not* to install recommended packages by default. > > Therefore the Recommends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf should be strenghened to > Depends:. > > There is no explanation in #677891 why the maintainer chose Recommends: > when upstream said Depends: was necessary; hence this new bug report.
Hello, I assume Clint chose Recommends because without gtk2-engines-pixbuf one experiences only graphical glitches which is a relatively minor, even though annoying, issue. I cannot reproduce that the gtk2 client will not work without gtk2-engines-pixbuf but I agree that it should be installed by default. Always remember that disabling Recommends comes at a price and that users are then supposed to install and configure the software manually. I think in this case we can safely depend on gtk2-engines-pixbuf but I wonder why it is necessary to declare a dependency on a gui package in the first place and why gtk2-engines-pixbuf is neither detected at build-time nor pulled in by other Gnome packages. Regards, Markus
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