Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Sean Whitton wrote:

Seeking seconds:

diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644
--- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ The meaning of the five dependency fields is as follows:
     The ``Recommends`` field should list packages that would be found
     together with this one in all but unusual installations.

+    It is not a bug if some things in the package do not work properly
+    because the user has not installed packages listed in
+    ``Recommends``.

That would mean Recommends is effectively Depends. Is it really what you intend?

Common practice is for a package to still function ok without Recommends, for example by printing an appropriate error message when the user invokes missing functionality.

Jonathan