[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Server now install a full DE?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/19/20 10:45 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 5/19/20 9:05 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> thanks Bas for the explanation. I believe the default should be no DE -
>> how can be the chain of deps be broken?
> 
> Talk to the Ubuntu people.
> 
> In Debian libnotify4 only Recommends notification-daemon.

It looks like Canonical did not want to support notification-daemon, the
version in eoan has this changelog entry:

"
    - generate the notification-daemon recommends with some hacks,
      this allows notification-daemon to be demoted to universe
"

In bionic notification-daemon is the only Recommends as well.

>> Il 19/05/20 08:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
>>> On 5/19/20 7:46 AM, Uros Preloznik wrote:
>>>> Can anyone explain why was this change necessary?
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be:
>>>
>>>  qgis-server Depends:
>>>   python3-qgis Depends:
>>>    python3-qgis-common Depends:
>>>     libqgis-customwidgets Depends:
>>>      qttools5-dev-tools Depends:
>>>       qt5-assistant Depends:
>>>        libqt5webkit5 Depends:
>>>         libqt5positioning5 Recommends:
>>>          geoclue-2.0 Depends:
>>>           libnotify4 Recommends:
>>>            gnome-shell | notification-daemon
>>>
>>> And via gnome-shell you many more gnome packages installed.
>>>
>>> The change to install Recommends by default was announced in October 2007:
>>>
>>>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
>>>
>>> This makes sense because the Debian Policy documents Recommends as:
>>>
>>> "
>>>  The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
>>>  with this one in all but unusual installations.
>>> "
>>>
>>>  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends

Kind Regards,

Bas

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