severity 389241 normal tags 389241 + wontfix thanks On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:09:26PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.9.21 > Severity: important > > uscan requires libwww-perl to operate. However, libwww-perl is not in > the Depends field of devscripts, but in the Suggests field. Running > "apt-get install devscripts" does not install libwww-perl which > renders uscan unusable. Therefore, libwww-perl should be a dependency > of devscripts and not a suggestion.
This is essentially the same as Bug#67710 (http://bugs.debian.org/67710). I wrote there: Unfortunately, devscripts consists of a large number of essentially independent scripts, any of which may be used by different people. I did once try to include all such dependencies in the "Depends" line, but people complained that they didn't really have any interest in installing package X as they weren't using program Y. So these are all now listed as Suggests instead. [...] The program does explicitly say what needs to be installed, so you do get a useful error message. That's the best I can do, without splitting devscripts into multiple tiny packages. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
