Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:00:25AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:40 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I wouldn't expect rt2500-source to depend on bzip2 any more than I
> > expect any package providing a PDF file to depend on a viewer.
>
> That's different because there are many PDF viewers (and other tools
> that work on PDFs). There's nothing much that can be done with a bzip2
> archive without using bzip2.
There are virtual packages which could be used to express the PDF
-> tools relationship if it was important to do that.
As an example, the r-doc-pdf package suggests pdf-viewer.
Perhaps rt2500-source should recommend bzip2? The relationship seems to
fit the definition - a package that is usually installed along with it
but not strictly required.
Hamish
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