On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:56:13PM +0530, Bhavani Shankar wrote: > * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: LP: #403348 > * debian/control: > - Moved python-musicbrainz from Suggests to Depends(LP: #139008) > - Moved lastfmsubmitd from Suggests to Depends(LP: #158335)
I'm not entirely convinced that these packages should be bumped to Depends. I do realize though that there is a conflict here between not being confusing for users who want the plugins to just work and not being annoying to power users who don't want packages on their system that they're not using (in this case, for plugins they don't use), especially for things like daemons as is the case with lastfmsubmitd. What's your opinion of moving all the packages in Suggests: (which are required only for specific plugins) to Recommends:, rather than your fix of making them dependencies? That way, for most users, who should have apt installing Recommends by default if they haven't disabled this feature, they'll get all the dependencies for all the plugins. But apt will still allow uninstalling packages that are only required by specific plugins if the user so desires. The package description could also be modified to make note of which plugins require which packages. If you have any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions. cheers, Christine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
