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Bug#909522: emacs-goodies-el: questionable Depends/Recommends



control: tag -1 +pending

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 07:03:10AM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 07:55:41PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> 
> >> There are several dependencies/recommendations in emacs-goodies-el which
> >> look questionable to me.
> >> 
> >> - elpa-debian-el, elpa-dpkg-dev-el, elpa-devscripts:
> >>   Those packages are the successors of debian-el, dpkg-dev-el and
> >>   devscripts-el which used to be built from the emacs-goodies-el source
> >>   package.  But the emacs-goodies-el _binary_ package in Stretch did not
> >>   depend on those, so why have these dependencies be introduced now?
> >
> > I'm not sure.  David, 'git blame' says you're the one to ask.  Maybe
> > these could be downgraded to suggests in the next release?
> 
> I think they can be omitted entirely.

Hi David, Done, fixed in git :-)

Cheers,
Nicholas

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