severity 382669 wishlist thanks Le samedi 12 août 2006 à 17:30 +0200, Emil Nowak a écrit : > Package: gconf2 > Version: 2.14.0-4 > Severity: normal > > Normally upstream package of gvonf2 doesn't depend on python. In all other > distributions gconf2 also doesn't depend on python. > > But in debian we have "gconf-schemas" script which is written in python, and > so all programs that need gconf now automatically depend on python.
If anyone manages to rewrite the gconf-schemas and update-gconf-defaults scripts in perl, *and* if I can decently understand and maintain these scripts, I will be happy to replace the current scripts with the provided ones. Currently, these scripts allow us to make all GConf-related packages comply with the FHS and to ease their maintainability. There is no way that we can remove this functionality. > I'm not sure but IMHO such "new dependencies" should be against debian policy. > What if libc6 guys decide to write some post-install script-helper with > JavaBeanShell ? Python is one of the supported languages for the GNOME platform. It is expected that a typical GNOME installation requires python anyway. Of course, trying to save dependencies is a good thing, but not at the price of maintainability. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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