On 3/3/21 8:29 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:49:29PM +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > >> gnumed-client depends on python3-pip. Why? >> >> The only use is in external-tools/check-prerequisites.py trying to download >> the >> pysvg module last updated in 2012, and not ported to Python3 ... > > The helper script external-tools/check-prerequisites.py > certainly does not do anything obnoxious like "trying to > download the pysvg module". It merely tells the user how to > retrieve the proper version thereof.
well, then it can tell to install python3-pip as well. No need to have a hard dependency on that. > Quite apart from that the dependency can safely be demoted to > Recommends:, or even Suggests:, if the former is still > coupling too tightly. just remove it, or package the dependency properly. Matthias
