Hi Ludovic, martin f krafft wrote in 2008: > Package: backuppc > Version: 3.1.0-3 > Severity: normal > > I appreciate that backuppc can work with the SMB protocol, but > I don't need that on any of my machines. Thus, I also don't want to > install smbclient or samba-common on those machines. Please make > that a suggestion or recommendation, not a dependency.
[email protected] wrote in 2009: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny1 > severity 488098 wishlist Could you please at least give a reason why you a) regard this as wishlist bug despite it (at least IMHO) clearly violates a "should" directive in section 7.2 of the Debian Policy, and b) don't fix it despite it's very trivial to fix, very annoying in Linux-only environments and has a very low impact elsewhere? Recommends are installed by default and people who are deactivating their automatic installation are supposed to know what they are doing, so downgrading this to Recommends should do no harm in default installations at all: The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality. The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. Making backups via SMB is surely not "a significant amount of functionality" but fits perfectly into "would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations" -- although I don't count "linux-only" as "unusual". :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
