Package: birdtray Version: 1.8.0+ds-1+locness1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
the Birdtray package has a dependency on the Thunderbird package in Debian, meaning that using the Birdtray package requires installing the Thunderbird package as well. However, there are other ways a user might install Thunderbird, notably the binary the binary distribution from thunderbird.net. This does not prevent Birdtray from functioning, as it offers an option to specify the paths to the Thunderbird profile directory and executable. In this case, they probably do not desire to install an extra copy of Thunderbird. I believe it would make sense to have the Birdtray package *recommend* Thunderbird instead of depending on it, so it is possible to not install the Debian package of Thunderbird if using Birdtray with TB installed from another source. I am not familiar with Debian packaging so I do not know if this is a desirable choice, but it seems reasonable to me. I am reporting from Ubuntu focal, but have checked via packages.debian.org that this applies to Debian sid. The information below and above describe the modified version I've made of the package that simply removes the thunderbird dependency from the control file. Thanks for your consideration -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers focal-updates APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-153-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages birdtray depends on: ii libc6 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 ii libgcc-s1 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04 ii libqt5core5a 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 ii libqt5gui5 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 ii libqt5network5 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 ii libqt5svg5 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 ii libqt5widgets5 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 ii libqt5x11extras5 5.12.8-0ubuntu1 ii libstdc++6 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.9-2ubuntu1.5 birdtray recommends no packages. birdtray suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
