Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Chris, On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:17:41 Chris Bainbridge wrote: As I said, for people on fast broadband installing a 100MB+ documentation file is no problem. For users in developing countries relying on poor internet connections (like me), a 100MB+ download can be a problem. Usually it is

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-12 Thread Sébastien Villemot
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

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 12 March 2014 14:53, Sébastien Villemot sebast...@debian.org wrote: 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

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-12 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mercredi 12 mars 2014 à 15:17 +0700, Chris Bainbridge a écrit : On 12 March 2014 14:53, Sébastien Villemot sebast...@debian.org wrote: 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

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Note that you can still uninstall gnucash-docs, since it is not a strong dependency (contrary to what you said in the bug title) Recommends is a strong dependency according to Debian policy: Recommends This declares a *strong*, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends field

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-12 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mercredi 12 mars 2014 à 21:05 +0700, Chris Bainbridge a écrit : Recommends is for packages that would be found together.. in all but unusual installations. IMHO it would not be *unusual* for a user to install (or want to install) gnucash without the documentation. Suggests is used for a

Bug#741396: gnucash recommends gnucash-docs but suggests may be more appropriate

2014-03-11 Thread Chris Bainbridge
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