[Bug 1213920] [NEW] Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

2013-08-19 Thread Vasco Alves
Public bug reported: aptdaemon's package as it stands recommends lintian. This means that lintian gets installed by default in Ubuntu, and any flavours that use Firefox by default, as Ubufox depends on aptdaemon, OR that install the ubuntu-drivers-common packages by default, which I image is most

Re: [Bug 1213920] [NEW] Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

2013-08-19 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Litian is used to make assumptions about the quality of third party packages that e.g. have been downloaded from the Internet by the user. So it is not used as a developer tool in this context. We could argue if ubuntu-desktop should depend on lintian instead of aptdaemon itself. But which