Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

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

Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-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".

That's a reason not to use Recommends in metapackages everywhere
(indeed, it's _the_ reason why metapackages shouldn't just all use
Recommends).

But in this specific case, it isn't a good reason, because the bug
(failing to honour a newly-appearing Recommends) will not occur in the
case of people upgrading from squeeze's "gnome", because the squeeze's
"gnome" package already had that recommends.

Ian.