Dear Maintainer,

After today's upgrade to 0.84.6, apt installed all these along with synaptic

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common emacsen-common libaspell15
  libenchant1c2a libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libharfbuzz-icu0
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 zenity zenity-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  synaptic

All that sums to 85MB more space. Why?
Because synaptic pulls zenity, zenity pulls libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37,
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 pulls libenchant1c2a, libenchant1c2a pulls aspell-en and
the rest.
Please do something about it.

Now that synaptic was updated to 0.84.7 and it no longer pulls zenity as a
dependency, its dependencies have dropped to the minimal ones, so this issue
can be closed.

I will open a new one on zenity, because its dependencies remain stupid.

Thank you! Yeah, I think its worthwhile to open a bug about this
dependency. And it was a valid bug against synaptic, I was considering
to write a small wrapper myself to avoid it but time is short :(

Fortunately this is resolved now. Fwiw, I would maybe use a word
slightly less negative than "idiotic" in the bugreport against zenity.

Cheers,
 Michael

I agree, "idiotic" is a bit too much for what I wanted to say but english is
not my mother tongue and I wanted something a bit more "strict" than "stupid"
or "dumb".
I will use stupid for the new bug report

Thank you :)

I think it is time to close this bug. After all, it was not synaptic to blame
but zenity.
I opened the real bug report on zenity, in #942362.

Thank you

Just a confirmation that the bug is fixed now, so that the debian bug tracker
can close it.

What type of voodoo do I have to do on reportbug in order to get this bug
closed? I pressed "yes" when reportbug asked me if the bug still exists in
v0.84.8, like I did last time, and yet the bug is still open.