On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:01:17 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 19:37:33 Holger Levsen wrote: > > "optional depends" - what?? Thats self contradictory. If a depends it's > > really optional, it's not a depends, thus that package is buggy and should > > not be fixed by introducing a nonsense package, but by removing this > > depends. > Not at all, it may appears "self contradictory" only because debian/control > "language" doesn't have a right term for it. Or perhaps my wording is not > perfect. If you got the idea, can you suggest a better word? Build-Recommends(-Indep) Yes, this is a slippery slope and a can of worms (and probably some other idioms). But I see the use case, e.g. for packages that rebuild the documentation if some tool is available and just skip it gracefully and use the shipped version, if not. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Alanis Morisette: Head Over Feet
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