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Re: debian-archive-keyring should Recommends: gnupg not Depends: it



* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [061014 09:56]:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:07:22AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Don Armstrong (don@donarmstrong.com) [061013 05:23]:
> > > Changing this would allow installs to not have the whole dependency
> > > tree of gnupg, while still providing the upgrade path that the recent
> > > upload of apt was done to provide.
> 
> > > [Upgrades would install debian-archive-keyring, which would install
> > > gnupg if Recommends are set to be installed.]
> 
> > Hm, does apt* behave different on Recommends of a new package vs
> > Recommends of a to-be-upgraded package?
> 
> aptitude does; recommends of new packages are installed by default, new
> recommends of upgraded packages are not.

Hm, in that case I don't mind to downgrade it to Recommends, but I don't
think it is an RC bug to change it.


Cheers,
Andi
-- 
  http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/



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