Depends vs. Recommends (Was: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit)

2006-07-16 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: I agree that that is a common type of file to recover, so that would make it more appropriate to Recommend cpio rather than Suggest. a common type? Come on, that's not just common,

Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gzrt Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Aaron M. Renn * URL : http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/gzrt/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : gzip recovery

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-13 15:54]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gzrt Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Aaron M. Renn * URL : http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/gzrt/ * License :

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Martin Wuertele] Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from damaged gzipped tarballs. No need to mension it in the description, that's what dependencies are for. Presumably he intends to merely Recommend cpio, in which case it's entirely appropriate to explain why in

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 13, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presumably he intends to merely Recommend cpio, in which case it's entirely appropriate to explain why in the description. README.Debian maybe, but not in the description... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) On Jul 13, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presumably he intends to merely Recommend cpio, in which case it's entirely appropriate to explain why in the description. README.Debian maybe, but not in the description... The package description

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-13 16:48]: [Martin Wuertele] Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from damaged gzipped tarballs. No need to mension it in the description, that's what dependencies are for. Presumably he intends to merely Recommend

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Wuertele [Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:24:38 +0200]: Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from damaged gzipped tarballs. No need to mension it at all (skipping woody): ^^ Hopefully it == the version :) As Henning, I also