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Bug#527363: lintian: please display a warning or informational tag if doc packages are recommended



On 09/05/07 14:37 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ...
> With Install-Recommends being the default, I've noticed that a lot of
> documentation packages are pulled in.  These are sometimes large and not
> strictly "[should] be found together with this one [package] in all but
> unusual installations".

[snip...]

> It would be good if there were a lintian warning or informational tag like
> doc-package-in-recommends with a suggestion that the dependency be
> downgraded to suggests.

ofcourse, only if the package recommending the documentation package itself it
not a documentation package.

Giridhar

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