[Bug 817718] Re: [Oneiric] Wrong dependency in usb-creator 0.2.31

[Jeremy Bicha]

Chris, the Unity support already is a run-time complexity. See
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~usb-creator-hackers/usb-
creator/trunk/view/head:/usbcreator/frontends/gtk/unitysupport.py where
usb-creator-gtk checks if libunity is installed or not. This is standard
practice because this kind of patch could go upstream .

While Ubuntu does not officially support running Gnome without Unity
(for example, ubuntu-desktop doesn't support that & there aren't active
developers using this configuration), we don't need to arbitrarily make
it impossible.

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- [Oneiric] Wrong dependency in usb-creator 0.2.31
+ [Oneiric] usb-creator should recommend libunity not depend on it

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Title:
  [Oneiric] usb-creator should recommend libunity not depend on it

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The latest usb-creator-gtk package depends on gir1.2-unity-3.0.
  This in turn pulls in packages gir1.2-dee-0.5, gir1.2-dbusmenu-glib-0.4 and libunity4.
  This is unnecessary regarding Ubuntu Oneiric setups (with gnome desktop), where Unity is not installed.
  I only use gnome-shell and as a fallback gnome-panel.

  The dependency of usb-creator-gtk should not be depends, but rather recommends gir1.2-unity-3.0.
  Donwgrading back to version 0.2.30 solves this issue.

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