Re: -data packages and recommends?

["Vincent Fourmond" <fourmond@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org> wrote:
>  > > Just noticed, that we are quite inconsequenz regarding our -data
>  > > packages.  Some of them depends on their binary counterpart (e.g.
>  > > warzone2100), some of them don't (e.g. adanaxisgpl).
>  > FTR warzone2100-data actually recommends warzone2100 rather than
>  > depending on it.
>
>  Yes, that was what I meant but didn't wrote ;)
>
>  -data packages should IMHO recommend their binary packages, not depends
>  on them.

  In case of tight link between data and game (say, version 0.2.3 of
the game doesn't play with 0.2.3.1 of the data), I think the best is
to use strict versioned depends on the binary and possibly versioned
conflicts on the -data package. My guess is that it should take care
of all version incompatibilities while allowing people to install the
data independently of the game. (or did I miss something ?).

  Cheers,

      Vincent