Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:55:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> > While I support the effort to reduce disk space usage, I strongly
> > disagree with this proposal.
> > A software is worth nothing without appropriate documentation.
> No, that's subjective, with the subject being the package
> maintainer. If the maintainer considered the software "worth nothing"
> without doc, he could have (in the past) marked the -doc package as
> *dependency* as that was the only way in the past to have it installed
> by default.
Yes, and the MBF proposal *doesn't* take into account packages that
previously *did* have a hard dep on their doc packages and only demoted it
to a Recommends: once the default behavior changed.
Cf. swat, samba-doc.
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