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Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages



On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:31:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Wouldn't this MBF shake out which packages actually have good reason for
> a strong (i.e. pulled-in-by-default-package-tool-behaviour) dependency
> relationship to their docs from those that do not?

At the expense of the time of maintainers who have to close these garbage
bugs.

> That seems like a good reason to go through this exercise.

No.  Figure out which packages actually should be changed, *then* file bugs.

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