Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726146 Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Le mercredi 12 mars 2014 à 10:27 +0700, Chris Bainbridge a écrit : > Package: gnucash > Version: 1:2.6.1-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > (continued from bug #741175) > > On 12 March 2014 02:08, Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> wrote: > > I think that Recommends is the right dependency level, because otherwise > > some menu items won't work. Note that you can still uninstall > > gnucash-docs, since it is not a strong dependency (contrary to what you > > said in the bug title). Anyways, if this is really an important issue > > to you, please find a bug against gnucash, which is the right place to > > deal with this issue. > > I've opened a gnucash bug - > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726146 - suggesting that when > the ondisk documentation is not present gnucash should redirect to the > online docs instead of throwing an error. This is an interesting idea. Note however that it has some drawbacks: if the version of gnucash installed on your system is older than the last version (and this happens for users of Debian stable), then the online documentation will not correspond to the version being used. > The Debian Policy Manual does say "Packages must not require the > existence of any files in /usr/share/doc/ in order to function > (The system administrator should be able to delete files in > /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.)" This is clearly a false statement. gnucash is not unusable at all in the absence of the documentation. Only two menu items about documentation will not work; instead they display a message saying that gnucash-docs should be installed. > There are other -docs packages (clamav, tomcat etc.) that use Suggests > rather than Recommends. For a few MB of docs it may not be a big > problem, but it is more necessary for gnucash when the docs are so big > (>100MB) - not everyone has a fast broadband connection, especially in > developing nations. There are people who disagree with you, see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451894 For the time being I tend to agree with people who want a Recommends. Note that you still have the option to not download the package at installation time of gnucash, since it is a Recommends and not a Depends. I'm marking this bug as wontfix for now. I will revise this decision if upstream implements your suggestion. Cheers, -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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