Re: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 07.01.20 01:29, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 1/7/20 1:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > Using Recommends to mean "Depends, except on
> > > buildds" would produce bad results for end users that use
> > > --no-recommends.
> > I disagree. Anyone who uses "--no-recommends" should know what they are
> > doing. And those are just manpages, after all.
> The trouble is that the "git help" feature (a standard feature of Git)
> is not designed to work in their absence.  I agree that that's worth
> changing, and that is what https://bugs.debian.org/613892 is about.
>
> For the case at hand: do you have a list of arches that are affected
> by this?  I can demote the dependency to Recommends on those arches.

I suggest to have "git help" point to the missing package and have it
"demoted" to recommends for all platforms. The fewer exceptions the better.

Thank you both

Steffen