[Pidgin] #9504: Modify finch PPA package to recommend prpl support libraries instead of depend on them.

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#9504: Modify finch PPA package to recommend prpl support libraries instead of
depend on them.
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 Reporter:  jdarias           |        Owner:  rlaager            
     Type:  enhancement       |       Status:  closed             
Milestone:                    |    Component:  finch (gnt/ncurses)
  Version:  2.5.7             |   Resolution:  worksforme         
 Keywords:  PPA dependencies  |  
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Changes (by rlaager):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme


Comment:

 libhesiod comes in for Zephyr, I believe. libperl and libdbus-glib are for
 the Perl and DBus bindings.

 If you're not using any particular prpl or bindings, these dependencies
 are unnecessary. But if you are, then not having them pulled in by default
 is annoying. Arguably, we could separate out the Perl binding support into
 a libpurple-perl or something, but is it really worth it?

 Now that apt-get installs Recommended packages by default (which I
 personally find annoying), I could make these Recommended. However, my
 goal for the PPA is to follow the union of the latest version of Pidgin
 and the latest Ubuntu package of Pidgin. Aside from things that are
 necessary in backporting to keep things working and compatible, the only
 change I've made from these goals is the removal of a non-upstream patch
 (11_buddy_list_really_show.patch) where we've heard reports of it causing
 breakage.

 I really don't want to head down the path of deviating from the official
 Ubuntu packages, both from an avoiding-unnecessary work standpoint as well
 as to keep the user experience the same.

 If you really care about reducing these dependencies, write me a patch
 (that I can drop in the debian/patches directory) against debian/control
 from the PPA and I'll *consider* adding it. If it's something that I have
 to manually apply to debian/control every time, I won't think it's worth
 it.

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