severity 875708 serious thanks Hallo Daniel,
Am Donnerstag, den 12.10.2017, 21:17 +0200 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > severity 875708 normal > thanks > > Hi, > > this hardly qualifies as a serious - not everybody is using mytop and > mytop is not a core functionality of the mariadb-client-10.1 package. > pulling in libconfig-inifiles-perl unconditionally on all systems is > thus unecessary bloat. > [...] its not hardly, its real. Mytop can't work without libconfig-inifiles- perl. So it must by declare as with Depends. From [1]: [qoute] The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality. [/quote] And a missing dependency is an RC-Bug. From[2]: [quote] serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. [/quote] > if at all, libconfig-inifiles-perl should rather be in recommends, not > depends. imho better suited in suggests only though. > > Regards, > Daniel > CU Jörg [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends [2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html#severities -- New: GPG Fingerprint: 63E0 075F C8D4 3ABB 35AB 30EE 09F8 9F3C 8CA1 D25D GPG key (long) : 09F89F3C8CA1D25D GPG Key : 8CA1D25D CAcert Key S/N : 0E:D4:56 Old pgp Key: BE581B6E (revoked since 2014-12-31). Jörg Frings-Fürst D-54470 Lieser Threema: SYR8SJXB Wire: @joergfringsfuerst Skype: joergpenguin Ring: jff IRC: [email protected] [email protected] My wish list: - Please send me a picture from the nature at your home.
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