On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:10:58PM +0100, Victor Seva wrote:
> Hi Steve,

> Thanks for your quick reply.

> 2013/11/12 Steve Langasek <[email protected]>:
> >  If, however, you are enabling the tls plugin *by default* - for
> > instance, by providing a metapackage that pulls the two separate packages in
> > together, or by having a Recommends: that automatically pulls the tls module
> > in and automatically activates it

> Ok. But in this case installing the module *by default* via Recommends
> will *not* get the module active nor loaded.
> The user has to change the default configuration file and explicitly
> activate the tls module in order to get the tls loaded.

> Is is then ok to have the tls module in Recommneds?

In that case, yes:  because combining the plugin into a single program is an
action taken by the user (by modifying the config), not by the maintainer.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                                     [email protected]

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Reply via email to