> So sympa needs _some_ value for cafile, and ca-certificates provides
> a sane default for _most_ situations.
>
> The Recommends: stanza is _exactly intended for such situations.
>
> There was a long-time bug in apt-get to wrongly treating Recommends
> like Suggests. It was a bug and it has been solved. What is left is
> the wrong assumption amongst those used to the old wrong behaviour of
> apt-get. You need to un-learn that :-)
I disagree:
I've spotted the bug because on all the Debian machines I administer
(especially servers), I explicitly disable the installation of Suggests
and Recommends.
After installing SYMPA in a fresh Debian, I wondered why listmanager
failed to start. I had to trace the daemon to understand the problem.
Hence SYMPA is not fully usable if Recommends are disabled. I think that
it's not reasonable.
What do you think?
M.
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