photobomb package has too many dependencies

Bug #566922 reported by sam tygier
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Photobomb
Invalid
Medium
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Bug Description

photobmb really should not need a mail server (postfix) installed. i am sure some of the others are superfluous as well.

sam@hydrogen:~$ sudo apt-get install photobomb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  hplip-cups libparted0 resolvconf
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bsd-mailx dctrl-tools devscripts dput libauthen-sasl-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libio-pty-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl
  libparse-debcontrol-perl libpod-coverage-perl libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 lintian postfix python-distutils-extra
  python-quickly-common python-quickly-core python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxversion quickly quickly-ubuntu-template seahorse-plugins wdiff winpdb
Suggested packages:
  debtags cvs-buildpackage devscripts-el gnuplot libfile-desktopentry-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl mutt svn-buildpackage debian-keyring debian-maintainers
  equivs ubuntu-dev-tools libcrypt-ssleay-perl libsoap-lite-perl libyaml-syck-perl mini-dinstall yaclc libdigest-hmac-perl libgssapi-perl
  libgnomeprintui2.2-0 binutils-multiarch libtext-template-perl procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin postfix-cdb
  wx2.8-doc wx2.8-examples python-wxtools tcsh csh octave3.0 mksh pdksh python-quickly-widgets
The following NEW packages will be installed
  bsd-mailx dctrl-tools devscripts dput libauthen-sasl-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libio-pty-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl
  libparse-debcontrol-perl libpod-coverage-perl libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 lintian photobomb postfix
  python-distutils-extra python-quickly-common python-quickly-core python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxversion quickly quickly-ubuntu-template seahorse-plugins wdiff
  winpdb
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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

It looks like photobomb has a dependency on Quickly Widgets and (used to have a dependency on) PyGame. Quickly Widgets looks to have in turn a dependency on Quickly, which brings in all the dev tools you see (which is what the mail server is for). I'll see if I can get some help cleaning this up, if in fact, it's still a problem for maverick.

Changed in photobomb:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in photobomb:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

please could you explain the change to 'invalid'
has this been fixed?

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