Quoting Axel Beckert (2014-05-15 12:40:46) > Martín Ferrari wrote: >> It's probably a bit too late to say this (sorry, I came late to the >> discussion), but probably it would be a better idea to make that >> recommends a depends (or at least a prominent notice in Debian.NEWS), >> as many people who uses this maybe has already disabled >> auto-installation of recommends, and surprise breakage would happen. > > I disagree. The default is auto-installation of Recommends. If an > adminstator disables that, he has to live with the consequences. I agree with Axel about users choosing to ignore recommendations. We must, however, care for packages _build-depending_ on one of the bundle packages, as those do not take recommends into account - so until the following packages have switched to build-depend on bundle packages only as fallback for their real dependency, bundle packages must depend, not only recommend, new plain packages: jonas@bastian:~$ build-rdeps libcatalyst-modules-perl libcatalyst-modules-extra-perl readline() on closed filehandle RELEASE at /usr/bin/build-rdeps line 180. Reverse Build-depends in contrib: --------------------------------- No reverse build-depends found for libcatalyst-modules-perl. Reverse Build-depends in main: ------------------------------ libmojomojo-perl libtest-www-mechanize-catalyst-perl libcatalyst-plugin-fillinform-perl libcatalyst-devel-perl libcatalyst-engine-psgi-perl libcatalyst-authentication-credential-http-perl libcatalyst-view-component-subinclude-perl libcatalyst-modules-extra-perl libcatalystx-simplelogin-perl ciderwebmail Found a total of 10 reverse build-depend(s) for libcatalyst-modules-perl. Reverse Build-depends in non-free: ---------------------------------- No reverse build-depends found for libcatalyst-modules-perl. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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