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policykit package

[intrepid] policykit pulls in policykit-gnome due to Recommends

Bug #250619 reported by Andreas Hasenack
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
policykit (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Michael Casadevall

Bug Description

Binary package hint: policykit

In intrepid, apt-get also installs the "Recommends" dependencies. As a result, when one installs policykit, policykit-gnome gets pulled in.

As a practical example, "apt-get install landscape-client" on a server intrepid machine installs 97 extra packages just because of this, an extra 19Mb download and extra 98Mb used on disk.

Attached is the output of "apt-get install policykit" on an Intrepid server.

It was suggested to change the dependency on policykit-gnome from Recommends to Suggests.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/policykit
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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :
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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

I don't think that this is a bad thing.

It will have to be checked that the appropriate packages are seeded
as well though, so that installations aren't affected.

Thanks,

James

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

To clarify, I don't think making the change would be a bad thing.

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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote :

Yeah, I agree as well. Recommends shouldn't recommend a massive library that isn't a dependency; any packages that require policykit-gnome should list it as an explicate requirement vs a depends. Patch posted to change the Recommend into a Suggest.

Changed in policykit:
assignee: nobody → sonicmctails
status: New → In Progress
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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Ack, this makes much sense. p-gnome should be pulled in by seeding or by explicit dependencies (such as by gnome-mount and gnome-system-tools).

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package policykit - 0.8-1ubuntu2

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policykit (0.8-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Changed policykit Recommends policykit-gnome to a Suggests to
    which causes packages like landscape-client to install a lot of
    unneeded packages (LP: #250619)

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:34:34 +0000

Changed in policykit:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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