Re: demoting a dependency

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Paul Wise [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:42:32 +0800]:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> > Is there a more elegant way to do this?

> Not sure if it would work with your case, but xchat used this to
> demote plugin dependencies to recommends:

> dh_shlibdeps -a -u'-dDepends debian/xchat/usr/bin/xchat -dRecommends'

So the inverse should work too, as in:

  dh_shlibdeps -a -u'-dSuggests debian/inn2/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 -dDepends'

Which may be what Marco needs, so good suggestion.

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