news from Debian packaging

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 21 September 2011 Sep, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 2011/9/21 Adrien <adrien.grellier at laposte.net>:
> 
> >> It's great that you keep us updated! If I may ensure myself you know
> >> it, we're maintaining packaging recommendations in /README.PACKAGERS
> >> file of calligra source code.
> >
> > Yes, we are aware of it, and will provide the -driver packages for the
> > databases as requested.
> 
> Dear Adrien,
> Thanks for the great work!
> 
> > But the optional packages for kexi raise some objections here : it seems too
> > splitted for us, because calligra-libs alrealy depends on libmarble4-kde4
> > and libqt4-webkit and it doesn't bring a significant disk space saving for
> > kexi.
> >
> 
> 1. Please anyone correct me if I am wrong but marble shouldn't be hard
> dependency of the calligra-libs.
> It sounded like it can but this is because the said current
> incompletness of README.PACKAGES: Marble is used in one more place:
> maps flake plugin for docments in plugins/marblemapshape/. Not used by
> Kexi but can be used by all calligra apps.


Marble is also, I think, used optionally right in komain, for the RDF location triple widget. I'll see whether I can push that out into a separate plugin as well.

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