Bug#527363: lintian: please display a warning or informational tag if doc packages are recommended
retitle 527363 [checks/fields] shared library packages should not recommend documentation
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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org> writes:
> 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".
[...]
> 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.
Based on subsequent debian-devel discussion, there seems to be a lot of
disagreement with lowering documentation packages in general to Suggests
and a lot of people who feel that documentation should come with at
least some packages in all but unusual installations.
I think the one thing that everyone agrees on is that library packages
shouldn't recommend documentation packages, so I'll leave that part of
this bug open, but noting the rest here for future reference.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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