Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > Here is my proposal for a disposal of #681783, re Recommends and > particularly metapackages.
> Whereas: > 1. The Technical Committee's view is that the existing policy > on Recommends is correct. > 2. Specifically, we feel that there is nothing inherently wrong with > using Recommends in a metapackage. Any infelicities in package > management software's handling of Recommends (in metapackages or > more generally) should be treated as bugs. > 3. It may be that policy could be clarified in this area, for > example to make it clear that if a user chooses not to install > Recommends, some things may not work, and that that would not be > a bug. > Therefore: > 4. We do not make a ruling about the content of policy. > 5. We advise the policy maintainers to consider how to clarify > this, and to make whatever changes they consider appropriate. Looks good to me. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
