Bug#387093: hplip-data: please remove "recommends: hplip".

[Tim Phipps <tim@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> severity 387093 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Tim Phipps wrote:
> > This is causing me grief with trying to build dependancy trees. hplip
> 
> Please expand on that.  The reverse recommends is not a strong dependency
> loop, and helps to group the packages together, I will not remove it without
> a good reason.

I'm building up a list of packages that I would need in order to
recreate my system. Using aptitude and it's "install recommended
packages" setting I can get this list down to a manageable size. Part of
the script reports packages that are not marked as automatically
installed that could be and since hplip-data recommends hplip it
dutifully says that hplip can be marked as auto-installed. If I do that
aptitude tries to remove the package since it's dependency logic is
smarter than mine and it notices that neither hplip or hplip-data is
depended upon by anything else.

I have to special-case hplip in order to not have it removed. It's the
only package I have to do this to but doubtless there are others in the
archive.

If you find the dependency useful then keep it, I'd rather have some
special case stuff in a script than have hplip get broken.

Cheers,
Tim.