On Sunday, May 11, 2014 18:52:31 Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. You say it is not a hard depends, but > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#control > says to use Depends "if your program absolutely will not run (or will > cause severe breakage) unless a particular package is present." Given > that assistant is one of the programs installed by this package, and > it does not run without the libqt*sqlite package, IMO it stands to > reason that the latter is indeed a Depends. You are misreading that. In this case Recommends is what is typically used. Debian (and Ubuntu) install Recommends by default, so the only reason you wouldn't have Recommends installed too is if your system is in a non-standard configuration. If so, that's the problem, not the package. Scott K
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