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Bug#323064: kdenetwork-filesharing needs to depend on 'perl-suid'



Hi Alex,

> El Domingo, 14 de Agosto de 2005 15:46, Jens Nachtigall escribió:
> > kdelibs-bin is does only recommend perl-suid. Therefore, perl-suid
> > will not be installed
>
> A recommended package, is a package that most people should install:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binar
>ydeps
>
> «This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
>
> The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
> together with this one in all but unusual installations.»

Maybe, I am mistaken or my interpretation is wrong. But imho the 
dependeny of kdenetwork-filesharing towards perl-suid is "absolute", 
because without perl-suid kdenetwork-filesharing is broken. And it is 
broken in "all" installations. Therefore afaiu it should depend on 
perl-suid:
From the same page:

»
Depends 
==========
This declares an absolute dependency.[...]
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required 
for the depending package to provide a significant amount of 
functionality.
«

perl-suid does not only "provide a significant amount of functionality", 
without perl-suid the package kdenetwork-filesharing is _broken_



>
> apt-get warns you about which packages are recommended

apt-get does not "warn" me. It just tells me that there are also some 
recommened or suggested packages:
»
Suggested packages:
  ...
Recommended packages:
  ...
«


> because you 
> should look at them and very probably install them, and aptitude
> (IIRC by default) installs them.

That's right.



Jens


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