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kdepim package

kontact package requires kpilot, which is not necessary

Bug #59764 reported by GreatBunzinni
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kdepim (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

It seems that the kontact package requires the kpilot, which makes it impossible to have kontact installed without having kpilot in the system.

The thing is, kpilot is useless for all those users who do not have a palm pilot, which is a considerable amount of people. So that means that, according to the way the package is built, eveyone who wishes to use kontact but does not have a palm pilot is forced to install an application which is of absolutely no use.

So it would be nice if kontact stopped requiring a non-essencial application present in the target system just to install.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

kpilot is "suggested" for kontact (on Edgy), not required. You can install kontact without it.

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GreatBunzinni (greatbunzinni) wrote :

Please direct your attention to the kontact package for dapper on http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-354/. This is what Kubuntu's package info has to say about it:

<info>
 Package: kontact
 Version: 4:3.5.4-0ubuntu1~dapper1
 Section: kde
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: kaddressbook (>= 4:3.5.4), kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.3-1), korganizer (>= 4:3.5.4), kpilot (>= 4:3.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libkcal2b (>= 4:3.5.3), libkdepim1a (>= 4:3.5.3), libkpimidentities1 (>= 4:3.5.3), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4)
 Recommends: kitchensync, kmail, knode, knotes
</info>

I can only report the problems which are happening on the distribution I use.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

That is fixed in the Edgy package:

Package: kontact
Priority: optional
Section: kde
Architecture: i386
Source: kdepim
Version: 4:3.5.4-0ubuntu3
Replaces: akregator (<< 4:3.4.0), akregator-kontact-plugin
Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.3-1), libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12), libkcal2b (>= 4:3.5.3), libkdepim1a (>= 4:3.5.3), libkpimidentities1 (>= 4:3.5.3), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12)
Recommends: kaddressbook (>= 4:3.5.4), korganizer (>= 4:3.5.4), kitchensync, kmail, knode, knotes
Suggests: kpilot (>= 4:3.5.4), akregator, knewsticker, kweather
Conflicts: akregator-kontact-plugin
Filename: pool/main/k/kdepim/kontact_3.5.4-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

Kenny Duffus (kduffus)
Changed in kdepim:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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