Bug#681860: xscreensaver-data should recommends vs. depends on libwww-perl

2015-07-21 Thread Tormod Volden
Just to summarize this for later: - Upstream doesn't use url by default, so it will run fine without libperl-www - Debian, in its branding patches, sets url (for planet.debian.org) as default so some tools will complain if libperl-www is not installed. If we modify our branding patches to use text

Bug#681860: xscreensaver-data should recommends vs. depends on libwww-perl

2013-01-12 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Trek wrote: > That was my first guess, but xscreensaver-text (in the version included by > Debian) I have no idea what ancient version Debian has seen fit to include, but if your distro is giving you a version of xscreensaver-text that's more than two and a half

Bug#681860: xscreensaver-data should recommends vs. depends on libwww-perl

2013-01-12 Thread Trek
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:54:41 -0800 Jamie Zawinski wrote: >Actually "xscreensaver-text" already does something very similar with >LWP. Do you mean without? That was my first guess, but xscreensaver-text (in the version included by Debian) uses the Socket module instead of LWP. So I searched wher

Bug#681860: xscreensaver-data should recommends vs. depends on libwww-perl

2013-01-12 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Actually "xscreensaver-text" already does something very similar with LWP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#681860: xscreensaver-data should recommends vs. depends on libwww-perl

2013-01-12 Thread Trek
xscreensaver-data actually depends on libwww-perl to download images from the web, disabled by default. The installed size of xscreensaver-data is 1209KB, where libwww-perl depends on 18 others packages totaling 5167KB. I wrote a patch to dynamically load the LWP module at runtime and print an err