Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

David Paleino wrote:
> Il giorno Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:52:03 +0100
> Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> ha scritto:
>
> > Could you please make the yelp dependency a Recommends?
>
> May I ask why?

Sure.

> I believe "yelp" is better suited as a Depends (AFAIK, to read "gnome-doc"
> documentation, you need yelp)

gthumbs main purpose is to display images. It works perfectly fine 
without an installed yelp, yelp is only needed if you want to show 
gthumbs program documentation, which e.g. I never used until today.

Recommends is absolutely sufficient for that (One could even argue if 
Suggests is sufficient).

Imho there is no reason why gthumb has to have a hard dependency on 
yelp. Quoting the policy:


Depends

    This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be 
configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field have 
been correctly configured.

    The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is 
required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of 
functionality.


Recommends

    This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.

    The Recommends field should list packages that would be found 
together with this one in all but unusual installations.


Imo yelp doesn't satisfy the "provide a significant amount of 
functionality" clause as gthumbs purpose is to be an image-viewer and 
not a help-viewer.

Cheers,
Michael


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