Re: no{thing} build profiles
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
> On 2018-10-25 at 20:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
>> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
>> functionality.
> This does not actually seem to conflict with the "would be found
> together in all but unusual installations" definition for Recommends; in
> a case where the depending package can still provide meaningful
> functionality without the depended-on package, but will miss "a
> significant amount of functionality" if the latter package is not
> present, both definitions would seem equally applicable.
I don't know why you would expect otherwise? That seems entirely natural
and expected given that Depends is a stronger relationship than
Recommends, and therefore is naturally a subset of the things that would
qualify as Recommends.
You choose the strongest relationship that is applicable.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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