Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
> Subject: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:02:42 -0500
>
> > Having a Depends that are not correct forces people keep the package on
> > there system (or use dpkg --force) for no good reason at all.
> >
> > I encourage you to follow policy's recomendations, and use a Suggests:
>
> I agree. tetex-bin does NOT depend on texi2html in fact.
>
> If a lack of texi2html causes inconvenience to a user, he can
> search texi2html in dselect or in other ways.
>
> If there is no objection I will close this.
Well, I object.
The policy recomendation is for the general case, but this case is
special because texi2html was in tetex-bin in potato. I do not
propose to make tetex-bin to depend on texi2html forever, I just
propose doing so for woody. After woody the dependency may be dropped.
Upgrades *should* be smooth. An upgrade should never make the user to
lose functionality, or force the user to search for information to make
the system to work as before if this cann be avoided.
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