Bug#466686: kdebase-bin recommends gdb
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Hi,
Am Mi den 20. Feb 2008 um 14:01 schrieb Sune Vuorela:
> > Severity: serious
>
> Yay for inflated severities.
Sorry, but this is definitively a violation of the debian policy;
missuse of recommend.
The fine granular dependencies are the (one of) power of the debian
package management. So missuse of it make it not usable anymore. So I
think the severity is really serious. (The package might working fine.
But it poisons the debian dependencies.)
> > The new version of kdebase-bin recommends gdb which is absolutely not
> > needed for kdebase! Don't misuse recommendings. Not even gcc recommends
> > gdb it "just" suggest it.
>
> This was introduced in august 2005.
Sorry, I cannot follow. Please be a bit verbose.
Gruß
Klaus
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