On Tuesday, 4 Jul 2017 at 18:04 UTC Francesco Poli wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 19:29:30 +0200 Manolo Díaz wrote: > > > Package: apt-listbugs > > Version: 0.1.23 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Accordantly to the directive 7.2, installing a package without the > > suggested ones is perfectly reasonable, but debianutils is a required > > package. I've set the severity to normal because it isn't harmful. > > Hello Manolo, > thanks for your bug report! > > Could you please clarify what you mean by saying that debianutils is a > "required" package? > > Do you mean that it is a "Priority: required" package? > Indeed it is; it is also an "Essential: yes" package, hence it is > assumed to be installed on any (non broken) Debian box. > > That "Suggests: debianutils (>= 2.0)" has been in apt-listbugs since > before 2006: I am not even sure why (I only adopted the package in > 2009)... Maybe in order to suggest to have at least version 2.0 of > debianutils, but that version is now long obsolete. > I think that this Suggests may be probably dropped... > > Please let me know what you think.
Sorry, forgot to CC 867...@bugs.debian.org Hello Francesco, I'm not a Debian expert, but as you say debianutils isn't optional on every healthy Debian box and it seems pointless to suggest it. I agree with you in that it would be better to drop it from the Suggests field. Regards, -- Manolo Díaz
