Package: groff Version: 1.20.1-10 Severity: normal groff has Recommends for several packages, but does not have any particular documentation for how it uses those recommended packages, making it difficult for the user to determine whether to install them. Please consider documenting the reasons for some of the non-obvious recommends.
(In my case, I only installed groff so that "man -H" would work.) - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages groff depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system ii groff-base 1.20.1-10 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library Versions of packages groff recommends: ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-6 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF pn imagemagick <none> (no description available) ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact ii netpbm 2:10.0-12.2+b1 Graphics conversion tools between pn psutils <none> (no description available) groff suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
