Depends on gobject introspection, pulls lots of -dev packages

[David Sugar]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  epiphany-browser-data gnome-js-common gobject-introspection
  gobject-introspection-freedesktop gobject-introspection-glib-2.0
  gobject-introspection-repository libcairo2-dev libdirectfb-dev
  libdirectfb-extra libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev
  libgirepository1.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libice-dev libjpeg62-dev libpixman-1-dev
  libpng12-dev libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libseed0 libsm-dev
  libsysfs-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev
  libxcb-render0-dev libxcb1-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev
  libxft-dev libxml2-dev libxrender-dev mesa-common-dev x11proto-core-dev
  x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-render-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev

This should clearly not be the case :). Digging deeper, this is ultimately from gobject-introspection-freedesktop, which pulls a bunch of dev packages as recommends. But gobject introspection should not even be part of a runtime/normal user install of epiphany.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the introspection is used there, the issue is that they open .so files and not the soname version, not really an epiphany issue but rather one is in the introspection stack

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

There is ongoing effort to "fix" this via mini-packaging policy.

See
http://<email address hidden>/msg13658.html

Currently this is the best we can do for epiphany will be fixed eventually.