ubuntu-desktop: remove python-gdchart dep

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 19 19:34:24 GMT 2006


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:11:21PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Trying to upgrade Nessus on Dapper makes the following removals:
> 
> libgdchart-gd1-noxpm
> python-gdchart
> ubuntu-desktop
> 
> Apparently ubuntu-desktop 0.91 depends on an arbitrary library and/or
> python extension; removing these only removes ubuntu-desktop.  Is there
> any particular reason for this dependency, or is it legacy and removable?

python-gdchart needs to be updated for libgd2.  Unfortunately, this will
require some code changes and is not simply a matter of rebuilding, so it
make take some time before it catches up.

-- 
 - mdz



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