Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]:

Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to
revisit it:

> or Recommends which 
> behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, 
> but not all),

As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], apt now will install
recommends by default. And I'm not sure off hand, if not demoting your
Depends to Recommends would warrant a RC bug.

  [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
  [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt/news/20071023T154702Z.html

HTH,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
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