Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.23
Severity: normal

I see that most Suggests: got promoted to Recommends:. I understand and
support the move in general. But devscripts-el has also been promoted and
I don't see what part of devscripts relies on devscripts-el to be
available.

I understand it the other way, it provides nice helper tools for people
who use emacs and devscripts. Thus it's not required for devscripts to
work and Recommends is inappropriate... in particular when the
installation of devscripts-el means installation of "emacs22" for a
non-emacs user. Those people do aptitude install devscripts-el and get
devscripts installed together...

Please drop devscripts-el back to Suggests:.

Also in the alternative for VCS, you might want to put subversion first as
it's the most popular VCS used on Alioth right now. So people without any
VCS, would get svn installed by default and would have access to the
biggest set of source repositories.

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes
DEBCHANGE_PRESERVE=yes
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--color always -I"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.28.4     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.18    package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.8.8-12   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                           4.1.5-6    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                 3.1.10.1              Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  build-essential    11.3                  informational list of build-essent
ii  bzr                1.3-1                 easy to use distributed version co
ii  curl               7.18.0-1              Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  cvs                1:1.12.13-10          Concurrent Versions System
ii  cvs-buildpackage   5.21                  A set of Debian package scripts fo
ii  dctrl-tools        2.12                  Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-keyring     2007.12.04            GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii  debian-maintainers 1.26                  GPG keys of Debian maintainers
pn  devscripts-el      <none>                (no description available)
ii  dput               0.9.2.30              Debian package upload tool
ii  dupload            2.6.3.3               utility to upload Debian packages
ii  elinks [www-browse 0.11.3-5              Advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  epiphany-gecko [ww 2.20.3-1.1            Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii  equivs             2.0.7-0.1             Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii  fakeroot           1.9.4                 Gives a fake root environment
ii  galeon [www-browse 2.0.4-1               GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii  git-core           1:1.5.4.5-1           fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii  gnupg              1.4.6-2.1             GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  gnuplot            4.2.2-1               A command-line driven interactive 
ii  iceape-browser [ww 1.1.9-1               Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii  iceweasel [www-bro 2.0.0.13-1            lightweight web browser based on M
ii  libauthen-sasl-per 2.10-1.1              Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1                Support for https protocol in LWP
ii  libfile-desktopent 0.04-0.1              Perl module to handle freedesktop 
ii  libparse-debcontro 2.005-2               Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii  libsoap-lite-perl  0.71-2                Client and server side SOAP implem
ii  libterm-size-perl  0.2-4                 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii  libtimedate-perl   1.1600-9              Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl        1.35.dfsg.1-1         Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-perl        5.808-1               WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  links [www-browser 2.1pre33-1            Web browser running in text mode
ii  lintian            1.23.46               Debian package checker
ii  lsb-release        3.2-7                 Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lynx [www-browser] 2.8.6-2               Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  mailx              1:20071201-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  man-db             2.5.1-3               on-line manual pager
ii  mutt               1.5.17+20080114-1     text-based mailreader supporting M
ii  patch              2.5.9-4               Apply a diff file to an original
ii  patchutils         0.2.31-4              Utilities to work with patches
ii  perl [libdigest-md 5.8.8-12              Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  ssh                1:4.7p1-8             secure shell client and server (me
ii  strace             4.5.15-1.2            A system call tracer
ii  subversion         1.4.6dfsg1-2          Advanced version control system
ii  tla                1.3.5+dfsg-9.1        GNU Arch revision control system
ii  unzip              5.52-11               De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m [www-browser]  0.5.1-5.1+b1          WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  wdiff              0.5-17                Compares two files word by word
ii  wget               1.11.1-1              retrieves files from the web

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