Hi, Debian Policy allows to use the | (pipe) symbol in case of some fields:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#syntax-of-relationship-fields a. On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no | for recommends afaik > > On March 10, 2018 7:54:01 AM EST, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez < > [email protected]> wrote: > >On 9 March 2018 at 16:26, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Sent from a phone which beats iPhone. > >
