Installing scsitools pulls in Tk and X
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Server papercuts |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Chuck Short | ||
scsitools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Chuck Short |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: scsitools
When installing scsitools on a server on Ubuntu 9.10 and up,
the user is unexpectedly installing the X windows system. On
Ubuntu 8.04 systems, this does not happen.
The reason appears to be that scsitools has a the following
build-depends:
Build-Depends: tk8.4, debhelper (>= 5), quilt
Which turns into a:
Recommends: tk8.4
And as Ubuntu now installs Recommends: by default, the
user ends up with X on his server.
The package appears to come with one TK enabled script:
$ find . | grep -i bin | grep tk
./usr/
The right way to fix this is probably to split the package in
two: one TK enabled, one not. But at the very least I'd like
to see the 'Recommends:' turn into a 'Suggests:'
Changed in server-papercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → lucid-beta-2 |
Changed in scsitools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in server-papercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss) |
Changed in scsitools (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Chuck Short (zulcss) |
Changed in server-papercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package scsitools - 0.10-2.1ubuntu2
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scsitools (0.10-2.1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low
* debian/control, debian/rules: Split out tk_scsiformat into its own package
so we dont pull in X server on the server. (LP: #552622)
-- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:25 -0400