Can't install hardcode-tray when using inkscape-trunk

[dflock]

Specifications

• Hardcode-Tray version : hardcode-tray_3.5.2.1~880~ubuntu16.04.1_all.deb
• Distribution : XUbuntu
• Inkscape version : Inkscape 0.92+devel (unknown)

Expected behavior and actual behavior

$ sudo apt install sni-qt sni-qt:i386
...
$ sudo apt install hardcode-tray
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 hardcode-tray : Depends: inkscape but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Note the hardcode-tray : Depends: inkscape but it is not going to be installed - this is because I have inkscape-trunk installed and the hardcode-tray package has a hard dependency on inkscape.

This dependency should either be optional or it should depend on inkscape or inkscape-trunk.

[dflock]

Ended up editing the control file to get this to install, like this: https://serverfault.com/a/859394/72740

[bilelmoussaoui]

We should definitely remove the hard dependency of Inkscape. As the user can use whatever conversion tool they want

[andia89]

@bil-elmoussaoui Should I remove it as dependency?

That are the dependencies thus far:
Depends: git, python3, python3-gi, wget, inkscape, python3-cairosvg, gir1.2-rsvg-2.0, libqt4-svg, sni-qt, gir1.2-gtk-3.0

I guess inkscape, python3-cairosvg, gir1.2-rsvg-2.0, libqt4-svg, sni-qt can go

[bilelmoussaoui]

Yeah especially sni-qt and Inkscape. We should ensure to have a working installation, so maybe we should keep the python cairosvg backend?

[andia89]

Ok I'll keep python3-cairosvg I guess it's not too big anyways

[andia89]

Done

[bilelmoussaoui]

Perfect 👍

[varlesh]

Inkscape need for Papirus icons, because cairosvg not support CSS-styles.
#245

[bilelmoussaoui]

People can still install Inkscape and use it, it's just no more a hard dependency

[andia89]

what about rsvg? Maybe we just should keep that then?

[varlesh]

@wa4557 I don't know need test it. Also you can move inkscape packgae from Recommends to Suggests on PPA

[varlesh]

worked on Ubuntu 16.04:

[andia89]

Ok let's make a dependency on rsvg then. I will move the others to suggests

[varlesh]

@bil-elmoussaoui Why needed this more conversion tools? Maybe we will be used only RSVGConvert?

[bilelmoussaoui]

@varlesh you don't need them; you can keep using only RSVG. Others are there if someone wants to use something else they can do it without any issue ;)

[varlesh]

@bil-elmoussaoui But this superfluous work for you - support more coversion tools. I think RSVG enough

[andia89]

@bil-elmoussaoui Any reason for the git dependence? Seems to be weird for this kind of program...

[varlesh]

It's last option --update-git now discontinued.

[andia89]

Ok I remove that dependency as well then

[varlesh]

@wa4557 please add librsvg2-bin package to Depends on debian/control
RSVGConvert contained on librsvg2-bin package

[andia89]

@varlesh Done