On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:34:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> was heard to say: > As stated by the Debian Policy Manual : > > "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required > for the depending package to provide a significant amount of > functionality." > > and > > "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations." Something that may have been lost earlier in this thread is that apt-file *does* Recommend curl. The apt-file maintainer believes that it is useful enough to install apt-file without curl to justify weaking that to a Recommendation. Unless you are going to discuss that point specifically, the proper place to send your complaints is bug #42266. Daniel
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