Package: urlscan
Version: 0.9.5-1
Severity: normal
While discussing a system integration issue involving libcanberra-gtk3-module
and Flatpak, I was surprised to find that urlscan has a Recommends on
libcanberra-gtk3-module. This is a GtkModule that looks for GTK events
such as windows closing, modal dialogs appearing, etc. and generates sound
events for them, each of which can optionally be associated with a sound
effect via a theme.
urlscan doesn't seem to have anything to do with GTK, or GUIs, or anything
that would involve sounds at all. What is this Recommends for? I can't
see any reason why urlscan would want even a Suggests on
libcanberra-gtk3-module.
I see this has been queried before, in #813456, where Tavis Ormandy
suggested that this might have been a copy-and-paste error. The dependency
seems to have been added in 0.8.2-1, without any mention in the changelog,
by a maintainer who did one upload and then abandoned the package; the
only change since then was to reduce it from a Depends to a Recommends
for #813456.
smcv
