Re: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/7/20 1:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Using Recommends to mean "Depends, except on
>> buildds" would produce bad results for end users that use
>> --no-recommends.
>
> I disagree. Anyone who uses "--no-recommends" should know what they are
> doing. And those are just manpages, after all.
The trouble is that the "git help" feature (a standard feature of Git)
is not designed to work in their absence. I agree that that's worth
changing, and that is what https://bugs.debian.org/613892 is about.
For the case at hand: do you have a list of arches that are affected
by this? I can demote the dependency to Recommends on those arches.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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