There is no | for recommends afaik

On March 10, 2018 7:54:01 AM EST, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <art...@debian.org> 
wrote:
>On 9 March 2018 at 16:26, Yaroslav Halchenko <y...@debian.org> wrote:
>> THANKS!  but...
>>
>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>> Also, no need to `Recommends: iptables`, since is installed by
>default in every
>>> Debian system.
>>
>> indeed it is (triple checked with debootstrap)  but it could also as
>> easily be uninstalled.  And that is what I guess is done by docker
>and
>> may be other environments removing it (so docker images come without
>> iptables preinstalled since it is of no sense for them).  So I still
>> wonder if we should retain iptables in Recommends since it doesn't
>hurt.
>>
>> Also, until nftables is the strongly encouraged default we should
>> not place it into Recommends but keep it in Suggests to not install
>it
>> when people who already have the "default" iptables, apt-get install
>> fail2ban (and thus its recommends)
>>
>> what do you think?
>
>then perhaps we could Recommends: nftables | iptables

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