Hi Mihai, On Sa 15 Feb 2020 17:00:27 CET, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
* On 2/15/20 4:23 PM, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:1. why choose hello and not something that's on the system anyway, like the kernel or bin-utils or some X package?I'm not a DD, so my answer isn't authoritative and Mike#1 can probably explain this better, but optionaldep | hello seems to be a very common pattern in Debianpackaging. If a DD sees such a dependency, he'll recognize it and its meaning immediately.Depending on a package in the base system set (i.e., those marked "essential") MIGHT be easier, but this is seems to be generally frowned upon because it makesdegrading essential-set packages to optional ones more difficult, if I recall correctly. I've also read that normal (i.e., optional, non-core/essential)packages should generally NOT depend upon packages in the essential-set but justassume them to available unconditionally.2. why do you want to mak x2gokdriveclient (or is it x2gokdrive?) a hard dependency? Nobody needs it unless he's wants to use it. People can use x2go without it. So I see it as optional either way...Hm, Mike#1 wanted it to be a hard dependency, but moving it to Recommends might make sense after all, since other software that X2Go Client *can* make use of, like FreeRDP2, is also not strictly necessary and merely a recommended package.Note that Debian installs recommended packages by default (unless users explicitly configure or tell the package manager not to do this), so user experience wouldn't be affected by that change anyway. Mihai
let's please make a Recommends: relation out of this here.Whenever x2gokdriveclient has been released, then we can still switch this to Depends:.
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