Bug#626476: lintian: reduce dpkg-dev to Suggests
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> On 2011-05-17 19:49, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The choice of whether to explicitly state the Recommends should be
>> based on whether Lintian ever invokes programs in it directly or via
>> flags to tar or whether it only invokes it indirectly via libdpkg-perl.
>> IIRC, we invoke it directly via a flag to tar.
> We use it in unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1 to pass --lzma or --xz to tar.
> Other than that, I do not think we use it. Do you want a
> suggests/recommends for this?
We should probably go with either Suggests or Recommends, then, since we
do invoke it essentially directly.
I think it's okay to leave it as Suggests for right now, at least until xz
is used by more of the archive.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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