On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:02:53AM +0000, Bryan Donlan wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.79 > Severity: minor > > Currently, apt-listchanges recommends python-glade2 and python-gtk2. > > Per debian policy: > The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found > together with this one in all but unusual installations. > > However, headless servers using the pager or mail frontends are hardly > an unusual installation. Now that APT and Aptitude pull in recommends by > default, having these in recommends causes a large number of X libraries > to be pulled in unnecessarily. > > The python-glade2 and python-gtk2 recommendations should be placed in > the Suggests: field instead.
OTOH without python-glade2/python-gtk2 you can't use all the apt-listchanges functionnalities, which is typically why Recommends is to be used. Though it has been discussed to make apt-listchanges Priority Standard, if it will, I'll loosen that, but it needed some other fixes first. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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