On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
Downgraded dialign-t-data to recommends. apt-get and aptitude will install dialign-t-data together with dialign-t, unless the user overrides this.
I would disagree with this if dialign-t does not work without dialign-t-data
installed (which is what I understood from Charles explanation). If
dialign-t _Depends_ from the data we should exactly express this fact and
should not relay on the behaviour of apt-get. The only excuse to use
Recommends dialign-t-data would be if there would be another package
say dialign-t-really-important-small-chunk-of-data. Then the situation
would be
Package: dialign-t
Depends: dialign-t-really-important-small-chunk-of-data (= ${source:Version})
Recommends: dialign-t-data (= ${source:Version})
Package: dialign-t-data
Recommends: dialign-t (= ${source:Version})
Package: dialign-t-really-important-small-chunk-of-data
Recommends: dialign-t (= ${source:Version})
If a binary package makes no sense without its data package a Depends is
what you want. Besides the fact is that it is a principle to just express
what you want the fact that backports might terribly fail if you relay
on new apt-get features might convince you.
^
And all the docs are installed together with dialign-t.+Package: dialign-t-data +Architecture: all +Depends: ${misc:Depends} +Recommends: dialign-t (>= ${source:Version})
Ahh, and I would suggets '=' instead of '>='. There is probably no guarantee that higher versions of dialign-t will work with old data packages. To make the system consistent I would force same source versions installed.
I have commited the changes on SVN. Consider them as suggestions :-)
I could commit my suggestion as well, but I just wanted to make sure
that we agree about this first.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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