software-properties-common 0.96.24.24 bloats dependencies on server

[Steve Langasek]

As of version 0.96.24.24, software-properties-common declares dependencies on gir1.2-goa-1.0, gir1.2-snapd-1, and gir1.2-secret-1. This in turn pulls in a variety of transitive dependencies, including glib-networking, which was noticed because it is now part of the cloud image used for autopkgtests and breaks tests on some packages.

We include software-properties-common in the server seed in order for the add-apt-repository command to work. add-apt-repository definitely doesn't seem to be making use of any of these other gir modules. I don't think this dependency is added at the right level; I think the dependency needs to be moved up to whichever package is actually making use of the canonical-livepatch information - which appears to be software-properties-gtk.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.96.24.27

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software-properties (0.96.24.27) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: Move gir1.2-goa-1.0, gir1.2-secret-1,
    and gir1.2-snapd-1 dependencies from software-properties-common
    to software-properties-gtk (LP: #1762082).
  * SoftwareProperties.py: Wrap importing of gir1.2-snapd-1 in a
    try-except block in order to avoid failures in add-apt-repository.

 -- Andrea Azzarone <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:19:23 +0200