Don wrote, on the 17th of August: > With my vote, the outcome is no longer in doubt: > > Ian Jackson: AF > Russ Allbery: AF > Andreas Barth: AF > Don Armstrong: AF > > and we adopt the following resolution: > > 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. > > =========== > > Additionally, this bug has been cloned and reassigned to debian-policy > in accordance with #5. I will send a mail to d-d-a shortly announcing > this decision.
However he sent his message to 681783-done (only) so it didn't go to the TC list, so I'm quoting it all here so we have a message on the -ctte list. The bug against policy was created by Don cloning #681783 as #685746. I will send a message to debian-devel-announce. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
