aptitude install of finch on heron requires X11 deps

[MolePrince]

Binary package hint: finch

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

# uname -a
Linux ratatoskr 2.6.24-8-server #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 21:21:53 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

DESCRIPTION:
When trying to install finch [the console-only version of Gaim], aptitude attempts to pull down an entire X11 install as a dep, which is very non-optimal for users such as myself who do not run X or a Desktop GUI. RAOF in #ubuntu+1 advised that is because it has gstreamer as a dependency, and that I should file a bug report as it's possibly nobody's even noticed because most everyone runs X.

Output follows:

# sudo aptitude install -v finch|less

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Building tag database...
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config gconf2 gconf2-common
  gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  gstreamer0.10-x hicolor-icon-theme libaa1 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
  libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1
  libavc1394-0 libcaca0 libcairo2 libcdio7 libcdparanoia0 libcucul0
  libcupsys2 libdatrie0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdrm2 libdv4 libffi4 libflac8
  libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libfs6 libft-perl libgadu3
  libgconf2-4 libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
  libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhal1
  libhesiod0 libice6 libidl0 libiec61883-0 libjpeg62 libmeanwhile1
  libnm-glib0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libogg0 liboil0.3 liborbit2
  libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpixman-1-0 libpurple-bin libpurple0
  libraw1394-8 libshout3 libsm6 libspeex1 libtag1c2a libthai-data libthai0
  libtheora0 libtiff4 libttf2 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins
  libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libwavpack1 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6
  libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1
  libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1
  libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxtst6
  libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 libzephyr3 mcpp oss-compat
  pidgin-data python-dbus python-gobject ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core
  ttf-dejavu-extra x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common x11-session-utils x11-utils
  x11-xfs-utils x11-xserver-utils xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xutils
  xutils-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  defoma finch fontconfig fontconfig-config gconf2 gconf2-common
  gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  gstreamer0.10-x hicolor-icon-theme libaa1 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
  libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1
  libavc1394-0 libcaca0 libcairo2 libcdio7 libcdparanoia0 libcucul0
  libcupsys2 libdatrie0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdrm2 libdv4 libffi4 libflac8
  libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libfs6 libft-perl libgadu3
  libgconf2-4 libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
  libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhal1
  libhesiod0 libice6 libidl0 libiec61883-0 libjpeg62 libmeanwhile1
  libnm-glib0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libogg0 liboil0.3 liborbit2
  libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpixman-1-0 libpurple-bin libpurple0
  libraw1394-8 libshout3 libsm6 libspeex1 libtag1c2a libthai-data libthai0
  libtheora0 libtiff4 libttf2 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins
  libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libwavpack1 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6
  libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1
  libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1
  libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxtst6
  libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 libzephyr3 mcpp oss-compat
  pidgin-data python-dbus python-gobject ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core
  ttf-dejavu-extra x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common x11-session-utils x11-utils
  x11-xfs-utils x11-xserver-utils xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xutils
  xutils-dev
The following packages are SUGGESTED but will NOT be installed:
  cupsys-common defoma-doc freetype1-tools gnome-app-install
  gstreamer0.10-tools libdv-bin libfreetype6-dev libraw1394-doc
  librsvg2-common mcpp-doc mesa-utils psfontmgr python-dbus-dbg
  python-dbus-doc python-gobject-dbg speex tcl8.4 tk8.4 ttf-arphic-bkai00mp
  ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-baekmuk
  ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 ttf-kochi-mincho
  ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10
0 packages upgraded, 125 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Confirmed. I'm investigating this.

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

See debdiff attached.

libx11-6 dependency is moved to suggests.
I tested the finch package without X (in a chroot), result: it works, except an annoying warning saying it can't find dbus. It goes away by installing dbus... but dbus installs libx11-6. Given that it is only a warning, and doesn't seem to cause any problem using finch, I just suggest finch 2>/dev/null.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Sébastien: can you take a look at it?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.4.0-1ubuntu2

---------------
pidgin (1:2.4.0-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * Moved finch's libx11-6 dependency to Suggests: (LP: #195718)
     - debian/rules: added necessary arguments to dh_shlibdeps
     - debian/control: added Suggests: ${shlibs:Suggests}

 -- Adrien Cunin <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:15:39 +0100