Installing scsitools pulls in Tk and X

Bug #552622 reported by Jos Boumans
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Server papercuts
Fix Released
High
Chuck Short
scsitools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Chuck Short

Bug Description

Binary package hint: scsitools

When installing scsitools on a server on Ubuntu 9.10 and up,
the user is unexpectedly installing the X windows system. On
Ubuntu 8.04 systems, this does not happen.

The reason appears to be that scsitools has a the following
build-depends:

  Build-Depends: tk8.4, debhelper (>= 5), quilt

Which turns into a:

  Recommends: tk8.4

And as Ubuntu now installs Recommends: by default, the
user ends up with X on his server.

The package appears to come with one TK enabled script:
  $ find . | grep -i bin | grep tk
  ./usr/sbin/tk_scsiformat

The right way to fix this is probably to split the package in
two: one TK enabled, one not. But at the very least I'd like
to see the 'Recommends:' turn into a 'Suggests:'

Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in server-papercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → lucid-beta-2
Changed in scsitools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in server-papercuts:
assignee: nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss)
Changed in scsitools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package scsitools - 0.10-2.1ubuntu2

---------------
scsitools (0.10-2.1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/rules: Split out tk_scsiformat into its own package
    so we dont pull in X server on the server. (LP: #552622)
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:25 -0400

Changed in scsitools (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in server-papercuts:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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