Dear Josselin Mouette, Josselin Mouette schrieb: > Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 18:15 +0100, Oliver Rompcik a écrit : >> Josselin Mouette schrieb: >> > Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 13:32 +0100, Oliver Rompcik a écrit : >> >> The dependency of gnome on totem-mozilla violates Debian Policy >> (3.5), >> > >> > Are you serious? >> >> Absolutely: "Every package must specify the dependency information about >> other packages that are REQUIRED for the first to work correctly." > > Good. Then since gnome is a metapackage, by definition everything it > depends on is required for it to work correctly, since its only feature > is to depend on packages.
That's an non-logical abstraction. Following this the metapackage could be dependend on everything. But following Debian Policy, expecially Chapter 5 and 7, a dependency is defined absolute precisely. It is written for "depends" that "This declares an absolute dependency". And here the requirement for such a dependency is not met. >> So why not change it recommends: or suggests: ??? Is there at least one >> reason? > > METAPACKAGES ARE NOT A SUPERMARKET. You are now argumenting against yourself. That's what I say. Try to minimize dependecies. But I'd like to repeat my question, which is still unanswered: Is there any technical reason for gnome beeing dependend on totem-mozilla (and why especially totem-mozilla, not for example mozilla-plugin-vlc)? Or is it just YOUR preference, beeing one of totem's authors? You know, gnome is an essential package, since a lot of system packages depend on it. Trying to force people to use some software they do not need - maybe to push own software - is absolutely unnecessary and a controversy to the debian packaging system. So what stands technically against altering the Depends to Suggests?? With best regards, Oliver Rompcik > > /me goes adding a presubj to meta-gnome3. > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' > `- > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org