[Bit-dev] Re: Document weak dependencies when spawning sub processes?

A very good idea. Could this be automated? By grepping for Popen() calls maybe? Michael On 22.11.2022 20:12, BiT dev wrote:

I have just managed to identify a bug preventing the sys tray icon to be shown (together with the issue reporter)

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1236#issuecomment-1324079326

and it turned out that a required CLI tool (`xdpyinfo`) was not installed which is used to check if X11 is running

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b73562...

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b73562...

I think we should work through all source files and document required CLI tools. This is not only required to prevent bugs but also for package maintainers.