• Bug#1099713: speechd-el: needlessly depends on base-files

    From cacin@allfreemail.net@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 7 01:50:01 2025
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    Source: speechd-el
    Version: 2.11-2
    Severity: important
    Tags: patch

    Dear Maintainer,

    the speechd-el and speechd-el-doc-cs packages needlessly depend on the base-files package, which is an essential package installed on all
    debian systems.

    Please remove this dependency. Patch attached. Thanks.

    diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
    index 8a2af89..1a3c147 100644
    --- a/debian/control
    +++ b/debian/control
    @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Homepage: https://github.com/brailcom/speechd-el

    Package: speechd-el
    Architecture: all
    -Depends: emacs | emacs-gtk | emacs-lucid | emacs-nox | emacsen, make, base-files (>= 4.0.1), emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8), ${misc:Depends}
    +Depends: emacs | emacs-gtk | emacs-lucid | emacs-nox | emacsen, make, emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8), ${misc:Depends}
    Recommends: sharutils
    Suggests: speech-dispatcher, speechd-el-doc-cs, brltty (>= 3.7.2)
    Description: Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher
    @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Description: Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher
    Package: speechd-el-doc-cs
    Section: doc
    Architecture: all
    -Depends: base-files (>= 4.0.1), ${misc:Depends}
    +Depends: ${misc:Depends}
    Suggests: speechd-el
    Description: speechd-el documentation in Czech
    speechd-el is an Emacs client and an Elisp library to Speech Dispatcher. It

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