Great! Thanks! So lyx was supposed to be used for "reading" some documentation? Well, I would not think that lyx can be assumed to be a tool to do so. Octave users will use `help` and `info`, and when necessary, the browser and PDF reader, but certainly not lyx. Thanks for the effort!
Control: severity -1 normal
* Hormet Yiltiz <hyiltiz@gmail.com> [2015-12-12 19:29]:
> Package: octave-optim
> Version: 1.4.1-1+b1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 7.2
>
> octave-optim suggests lyx, which is a office suite that makes working
> with LaTeX easy, and implements a way for reproducable research.
> However, `lyx` then depends on `texlive`, which is a heavy
> dependency. Octave-optim is a package of GNU Octave, which is used
> for scientific computation. octave-optim, being a package for a
> octave that does the computation, should NOT depend or suggest a 3rd
> party software that is not very related to its usage.
I disagree with this interpretation. Section 7.2 of the Policy manual
does mandate that:
"Depends […] The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package
is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
functionality. […]"
However, there is no such requirement for the Suggests relationship:
"Suggests: This is used to declare that one package may be more useful
with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and
the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps
enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is
perfectly reasonable."
I am therefore downgrading the severity of this bug report to "normal"
hereby.
That said, I agree with the bug submitter that having to install lyx,
which pulls the whole TeX distribution, is an overkill for just reading
part of the documentation. I am now working on a solution that will ship
the *.pdf instead of the *.lyx, as it is currently the case. This will
eventually fix the bug reported here.
Rafael
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