On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > 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.
Although you cannot use all functionality, you can certainly use a great deal of functionality - all of the non-X11 modes work fine. Thus rather than them being "packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations," they are ones where "the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable." (policy 7.2) Of course, if the user attempts to select an X11 backend when it is not supported, then it should present a warning to the user or something, I suppose. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
