Package: meta-gnome3
Version: 1:3.20+4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
There was some discussion on #debian-gnome last week about maybe dropping
Telepathy from the core GNOME metapackages, on the basis that Telepathy
appears essentially dead upstream, and instant messaging (other than the
various closed-off networks like Facebook Chat) is a less interesting
feature than it used to be. (These facts are not unrelated of course.)
Empathy hasn't changed significantly since GNOME 3.12 and I think it's
time to consider dropping the dependency to a Recommends or Suggests,
or perhaps dropping it altogether, even though it's still in the
upstream modulesets.
I attach the obvious patch.
Regards,
S
(formerly a Telepathy maintainer)
Index: debian/control
===================================================================
--- debian/control (revision 51968)
+++ debian/control (working copy)
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
libcaribou-gtk3-module (>= 0.4.15),
dconf-cli (>= 0.22),
dconf-gsettings-backend (>= 0.22),
- empathy (>= 3.12),
eog (>= 3.20),
evince (>= 3.20),
evolution-data-server (>= 3.20),
Index: debian/control.in
===================================================================
--- debian/control.in (revision 51968)
+++ debian/control.in (working copy)
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
libcaribou-gtk3-module (>= 0.4.15),
dconf-cli (>= 0.22),
dconf-gsettings-backend (>= 0.22),
- empathy (>= 3.12),
eog (>= 3.20),
evince (>= 3.20),
evolution-data-server (>= 3.20),
