On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:27:56PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:09:26PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > 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.
Sure, I understand perfectly your quandary on this, but in my case, too many dependencies would not upset me. It is rather the bug reports asking for less dependencies I would tag as wontfix. ;) Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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