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

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Ian Jackson 

Hi,

> It seems to me that our objectives must include:

[...]

> 3. Users who deliberately removed network-manager in squeeze (which
>    they will generally have done by deliberately violating the
>    Recommends from the gnome metapackage) should not have to do
>    anything special to avoid it coming back in wheezy.

A somewhat tangential question here – is this a general requirement?
Doesn't that prevent maintainers from (worst case) ever upgrading
Recommends to Depends?  I'm worried about what precedent this would be
setting.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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