Bug#877771: Proposal: Downgrade -doc dependency from Recommends to Suggests
> Downgrade -doc packages dependency from "Recommends" to "Suggests".
This often comes up and I am opposing it, because several, many(?) packages
have clauses that the *whole*set*of*files*including*documentation*
needs to be distributed together. We have cases where authors even
force us to do it.
I would be very reluctant to go done this path.
That is the reason, and it has been asked already many times.
Norbert
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