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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On 07/23/2018 04:45 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +patch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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``.
> +
>  ``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
> 

I'm not convinced this is an improvement FWIW.  This seems to discount
plausibly valid bugs out of hand without defining acceptable failure modes.

Cheers,
Julien