- Suggests: The packages listed in Suggests are not required but may
be useful with this package.
example: zip-2.3-1
Suggests: unzip (current zip's info actually
says "Recommends", should this be "Suggests"?)
example: unzip-5.50-1
Suggests: zip
According to the Debian policy manual:
RecommendsThere are many, many .zip files stored all over the place. It's reasonable (and common) to want to extract .zip's I get from others, without caring about creating new ones. So unzip only suggests the installation of zip.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.
Suggests
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others ... but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable.
However, if I am creating .zip's, it is quite likely that I intend to extract them at some point. It's highly unusual to want to create a file that you can't use yourself! So zip recommends unzip.
The Debian zip and unzip packages have the same relationships as Fink's. Indeed, Aladdin uses a similar scheme for its compression products: It's common to have only Expander to unstuff .sit's, but have no tool for stuffing new archives. But if you do have DropStuff or StuffIt Deluxe to create stuffit archives, you can expand them too.
I rest my case. :-)
Dave
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