Hi Roland, On 12-01-05 at 03:29pm, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Package: ding > > Severity: normal > > > > As subject says: description says it requires agrep or egrep, yet > > only suggests agrep. > > > > If description is correct, it should instead recommend agrep | egrep > > Recommending egrep does not make sense here since egrep(1) is part of > the grep package, which is "Priority: required", so it should exist on > every Debian system. > > agrep is part of the non-free archive, so it isn't available to users, > that only use "main". To not bug them too much, I downgraded this > dependency from "Recommends" to "Suggests" and documented all this in > the package description. > > So everybody can use egrep(1) and those users, that use non-free > software are able to switch to agrep(1). > > In conclusion, I don't think that this is a bug and close this bug > report.
Thanks for the explanation. Makes perfect sense :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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