Re: Library depending on -data packages

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> The data package typically just takes up space without doing anything
> useful if you install it on its own, so it should have the
> special::auto-inst-parts debtag and should usually Recommend the library or
> executable.

I don't agree. Yes, the data isn't very useful without the code, but
that doesn't mean it should depend or recommend the code.
When you want to play Quake, you don't install Quake-data (or whatever
it's called), you install the pkg containing the executable.

-- 
Olaf