Re: Introducing DoudouLinux
The maintainer of the package chooses Recommends and Suggest
according
to his best knowledge. Any user can write a bug report if he thinks
the
choice was not properly / optimal done. This are the rules - I can
not
honestly believe you are not aware of the second part. :-)
Alright then, sure I knew the rules!
It does not matter how complicated it might be to find out whether a
dependency is necessary or not. *If* it is necessary it needs to be
in the list of dependencies - if not this is a bug.
So I understand any suspect dependency should just be reported to the
package maintainer. Sounds simple indeed :).
If a conflicting package is installed on the system you can not
install
the metapackage and the package management program (aptitude,
synaptic,
...) will warn you about this and ask for advise.
Do you mean we could partly remove dependencies of a meta-package by
putting it in a broken status?
Create a login at alioth.debian.org and ask for inclusion in the
Debian
Pure Blends project - this will grant you write access.
Done!
I'm afraid the current *audience* is that small that you do not need
to
bother about splitting / whatever. Just go on and do what you
consider
reasonable.
Ooops, we'll see for a larger audience later then.
BTW, what is the standard procedure to have interesting softwares or
upstream updates packaged in Debian: just create a Debian bug report? We
are currently using an updated version of gamine and songwrite, and
we're about to release a CD with TBO, a simple comic creator which is
developed on Ubuntu.
Cheers,
JM.
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