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latest release of x2goclient for Ubuntu has dependency on hello

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 [X2Go-Dev] Bug#1439: latest release of x2goclient for Ubuntu has
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#1439: latest release of x2goclient for Ubuntu has dependency on hello

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From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>

To: Seth Galitzer <sgsax@ksu.edu>, 1439@bugs.x2go.org

Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#1439: latest release of x2goclient for Ubuntu has dependency on hello

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:11:57 +0100

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* On 2/14/20 11:38 PM, Seth Galitzer wrote:
> When installing the latest update for x2goclient on Ubuntu 18.04 from 
> the x2go PPA, it has a dependency on the hello package, specifically 
> hello-traditional. The full package version is 
> 4.1.2.2-0~1913~ubuntu18.04.1. I suspect this is unintentional, but 
> filing a bug to check. Output from apt below confirms dependency.

It's fully intentional! "hello" is a very important package that ANY system
should have, however minimal!


No, seriously, it's intentional. Optional dependencies, like for
x2gokdriveclient, are most often resolved via an OR'd dependency with hello in
Debian packaging, since Debian doesn't truly have support for optional
dependencies and hello is small enough to not cause trouble. We could have made
x2gokdriveclient a Recommends: instead, but eventually it shall really be a hard
dependency, like the nxproxy one.

x2gokdriveclient needs further love (esp. regarding packaging) and is currently
only available for Debian in our upstream repositories - like I mentioned in the
release announcement. Not for Ubuntu, not for RPM-based distros, nothing else
yet. We'll eventually naturally package it, and once it's available
cross-distribution, it'll be a hard dependency. For now, I'd ask you to live
with hello as a nop-replacement. :)



Mihai

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From: Seth Galitzer <sgsax@ksu.edu>

To: submit@bugs.x2go.org

Subject: latest release of x2goclient for Ubuntu has dependency on hello

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:38:47 -0600

Package: x2goclient
Version: 4.1.2.2

When installing the latest update for x2goclient on Ubuntu 18.04 from 
the x2go PPA, it has a dependency on the hello package, specifically 
hello-traditional. The full package version is 
4.1.2.2-0~1913~ubuntu18.04.1. I suspect this is unintentional, but 
filing a bug to check. Output from apt below confirms dependency.

$ apt-cache depends x2goclient
x2goclient
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcups2
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libldap-2.4-2
  Depends: libqt4-network
  Depends: libqt4-svg
  Depends: libqtcore4
  Depends: libqtgui4
  Depends: libssh-4
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxpm4
  Depends: openssh-client
    openssh-client:i386
 |Depends: nxproxy
    nxproxy:i386
  Depends: <qvd-nxproxy>
 |Depends: <x2gokdriveclient>
  Depends: hello
    hello-traditional
  Conflicts: <x2goclient-gtk>
  Recommends: openssh-server
    openssh-server:i386
 |Recommends: freerdp2-x11
 |Recommends: rdesktop
  Recommends: freerdp-x11
  Suggests: pinentry-x2go
  Replaces: <x2goclient-gtk>

$ apt-cache rdepends hello
hello
Reverse Depends:
  x2gothinclient-minidesktop
    hello-traditional
  x2gothinclient-minidesktop
    hello-traditional
  x2goclient
    hello-traditional
  junior-system
    hello-traditional
  hello-traditional
    hello-traditional
  hello-traditional

$ apt show x2goclient
Package: x2goclient
Version: 4.1.2.2-0~1913~ubuntu18.04.1
Priority: extra
Section: x11
Maintainer: X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>
Installed-Size: 2,793 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), 
libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-svg (>= 
4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libssh-4 (>= 
0.7.3), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libxpm4, openssh-client, nxproxy 
| qvd-nxproxy, x2gokdriveclient | hello
Recommends: openssh-server, freerdp2-x11 | rdesktop | freerdp-x11
Suggests: pinentry-x2go
Conflicts: x2goclient-gtk
Replaces: x2goclient-gtk
Download-Size: 1,299 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ppa.launchpad.net/x2go/stable/ubuntu bionic/main 
amd64 Packages
Description: X2Go Client application (Qt4)
 X2Go is a serverbased computing environment with
 - session resuming
 - low bandwidth support
 - session brokerage support
 - client-side mass storage mounting support
 - client-side printing support
 - audio support
 - authentication by smartcard and USB stick
 .
 X2Go Client is a graphical client (Qt4) for the X2Go system.
 You can use it to connect to running sessions and start new sessions.

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Seth Galitzer
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