Second thoughts. The Debian policy says: "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations."
Hence using Recommends for yelp in those packages is well in line with how it's supposed to work, and since Lubuntu is out of the picture, there is no real issue to fix. Closing. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409185 Title: File Roller help is missing in Lubuntu: "Could not display help, the specified location is not supported" Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in file-roller package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: In a Lubuntu Vivid daily Live Session test (20150109), I tried to access the Help section in file-roller and got the following error message: Could not display help The specified location is not supported Steps to reproduce 1.Boot Lubuntu Vivid live session on USB 2.Open Accessories > "Archive Manager" 3.In main menu, select "Help" > "Contents" (OR press F1) Expected results: to access the help section for file-roller. Actual results: A dialog appears and shows "Could not display help" Workaround: Install yelp. Versions affected: Vivid (Live Session), Vivid (installed) lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 (Actually Lubuntu) apt-cache policy file-roller: file-roller: Installed: 3.14.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.14.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.14.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Hardware profile: https://gist.github.com/e4e4d9d3e41ccf5c27c7 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: file-roller 3.14.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-8.9-generic 3.18.1 Uname: Linux 3.18.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.347 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Sat Jan 10 01:45:39 2015 LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150109) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: file-roller UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1409185/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp