Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)
على الثلاثاء 6 حزيران 2017 04:42، كتب Jonas Smedegaard:
> Quoting Ghislain Vaillant (2017-06-06 10:13:55)
>>
>> Given this is a Python package, we should not even have to argue about
>> package relationships. Setuptools metadata provides install_requires
>> and extras_require, the former mapping to Depends, the latter to
>> Suggests. Period.
>>
>> Your typical Python project README would instruct users to install the
>> Python package via `pip install`. If one runs `pip install networkx`,
>> the graphics dependencies do not get pulled. That alone is enough to
>> justify that these dependencies should not go to Recommends.
>>
>> FYI, I have a similar problem with sympy (#861741), which pulls an
>> insane amount of packages via chained Recommends.
>
> We should certainly continue to align package relations with Debian
> Policy - and therefore by extension continue to argue about that as
> necessary to evolve Debian Policy:
>
> Upstream (or other) package relation hints can be a valuable _aid_ in
> resolving Debian package relations, but only that: An aid!
>
> Debian packaging follows Debian Policy - other hints do not.
>
Both good points, but upstream is in the best position to decide whether
something is a strong-yet-not-absolute-dependency (Recommends) of their
software. What Ghislain is saying about Python packages here makes a lot
of sense to me.
regards
Afif
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