Bug#479341: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#479341: dbus: Turn X recommends to suggests
Twas brillig at 23:39:26 04.05.2008 UTC+02 when Michael Biebl did gyre and gimble: MB We chose Recommends, because we want dbus-x11 to be installed by MB default, but to give the user the option (as in your case) to not MB install dbus-x11 (and it's X dependencies). Suggests is too weak MB imho. dbus-x11 will be pulled by the other packages in desktop system, and it is mostly useless on servers, so Suggests may be a better decision. -- pgpgHEI7rITCN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#479341: dbus: Turn X recommends to suggests
Package: dbus Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: normal dbus package recommends dbus-x11. However many server installations need to have dbus anyway, so I suggest to change Recommends to Suggests here (especially given the fact APT installs Recommends by default now). Quoting the policy: The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations and X11-less server is quite usual configuration. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-ovz005 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dbus depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-1simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages dbus recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.2.1-1simple interprocess messaging syst -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479341: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#479341: dbus: Turn X recommends to suggests
severity 479341 wishlist thanks Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Package: dbus Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: normal dbus package recommends dbus-x11. However many server installations need to have dbus anyway, so I suggest to change Recommends to Suggests here (especially given the fact APT installs Recommends by default now). Quoting the policy: The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations and X11-less server is quite usual configuration. We chose Recommends, because we want dbus-x11 to be installed by default, but to give the user the option (as in your case) to not install dbus-x11 (and it's X dependencies). Suggests is too weak imho. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
