On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:51:32AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Broken as in "partially working because there are expected features missing" > is the _very_ definition of "not installing a recommended package". > > Now, "broken" as in "doesn't work at all for any use case" would be a bug, > yes.
I don't disagree with you, and I think that this largely boils down to expectations management. "Doesn't work at all" is easier to define and agree upon than "doesn't work as I expected", and I think maintainers have widely-differing interpretations of how to use Recommends: as a result. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120711125013.GB11211@debian
