On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 07:51:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > It seems to me that the gnome maintainers have a philosophical view > that Network Manager is very strongly part of GNOME, and that they > feel that this philosophical position can only be properly reflected > by a hard dependency. That is, that demoting the dependency to > Recommends would be failing to properly give effect to the truth that > N-M is part of GNOME. To be fair, it seems to me that Joss has provided an additional answer to the "why recommends?" question in https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2012/09/msg00089.html For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends do not behave properly across upgrades". Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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