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Le mardi 10 janvier 2023, 11:21:31 CET Hendrik Lehmbruch a écrit :
> Package: kwrite
> Version: 4:22.12.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
Dear Hendrik,
> Is there a reason why kwrite depends on kate?
Yes, if you look at the libraries required by the kwrite binary, you’ll see
that it depends on libkateprivate provided by our kate package.
$ ldd $(which kwrite) | grep kate
libkateprivate.so.22.12.1 =>
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkateprivate.so.22.12.1 (0x00007f3c279c2000)
> While kate did not depends on
> kwrite, both depends on ktexteditor-katepart, but ktexeditor-katepart did not
> depend on both.
> It should be possible to install kwrite without installing kate (or remove
> kate
> without removing kwrite), and if i understand this right -> https://kate-
> editor.org/post/2022/2022-03-31-kate-ate-kwrite/ <- it should work.
It would be possible to make it work the way you want by splitting the kate
package and shipping libkateprivate as a separate binary package.
It’s too late for the next bookworm release to do so, the library transition
freeze is around the corner (tomorrow).
You can try and ping the bug report after the bookworm release if that’s
important to you.
I personally don’t have a strong incentive working on this but if you or
someone else feels like doing the split, patches are welcome.
Happy hacking !
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Aurélien
