Re: Bug#948151: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends
Hi Anatoly!
On 1/5/20 11:34 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
>> Since Recommends are enabled by default in apt, this would still
>> cause git-man to be installed on standard desktop installations
>> when a user invokves "apt install git" but at the same time it
>> would avoid installability problems as described in [1], especially
>> for Debian Ports buildds which, for example, cannot build rustc
>> at the moment because git is no installable [2].
>
> attached a simple patch moves git-man to "Suggests:" section
I would actually move it to Recommends as this will still result
of git-man being installed on any regular system but the installation
will not fail if the package is not available.
Recommends is basically a Depends that can be turned off with "--no-recommends"
which is exactly what the buildds are using.
Adrian
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