Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends"):
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:15:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >   - GNOME upstream have declared Network Manager to be an integral
> >     part of GNOME and the Debian maintainer is insisting on following
> >     their lead in gnome-core.  The maintainer is essentially asserting
> >     that the very purpose of the gnome-core metapackage is to reflect
> >     precisely what upstream have decreed, and that we should not
> >     deviate.  I disagree; I think (a) we should feel free to deviate
> >     from upstream if doing so is better for our users and (b) anyway
> >     setting one of the dependencies to Recommends is not a significant
> >     deviation.
> 
> I think you need to substantiate the (a).

You think I need to substantiate the proposition that we should
deviate from upstream if doing so is better for our users ?
It seems an obvious principle to me.  In some sense that's the whole
point of a distro.

>   Next up will then be the removal of pulseaudio from Depends
> because it handles your sound system on top of and somewhat instead
> of ALSA. And of course it places itself in /etc/xdg/autostart.

I don't find this slippery slope argument at all convincing.

Ian.