reduce byobu recommends

Bug #588340 reported by Dustin Kirkland 
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
byobu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

Binary package hint: byobu

Some people have raised a concern about Byobu bringing in too many recommended packages.

The current list is:

Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, python, python-newt (>= 0.52.2-11)
Recommends: update-notifier-common, lsb-release
Suggests: apport, vim, w3m, po-debconf

Of these, both of the recommends can be dropped to suggests (update-notifier-common, lsb-release).
 * update-notifier-common: needed to check for package updates
 * lsb-release: helps to determine the release name (if not present, it uses /etc/release)

Of the dependencies,
 * debconf: needed for the debconf launch-by-default question
 * screen: obviously, provides the raw functionality
 * gettext-base: needed for translations
 * python, python-newt: needed for the byobu-config curses configuration menu

:-Dustin

Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 2.77-0ubuntu1

---------------
byobu (2.77-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/control: drop update-notifier-common and lsb-release from
    Recommends to Suggests (their status scripts are smart enough to
    operate without them), LP: #588340
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Fri, 21 May 2010 09:37:16 -0500

Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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