How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)
* Adrian Bunk (adrian.bunk@stusta.de) [041003 17:10]:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > You certainly have a good point here. I'm not suggesting to remove
> > Recommends; I think the concept of Recommends is good. However, there
> > is also a difference between Depends and Recommends. I think what I'd
> > like to see is:
> >
> > Depends -> grave bug
> > Recommends -> normal (or important) bug
> > Suggests -> minor
> >
> > Recommends is stronger than Suggests but it doesn't completely break
> > the package so imho it shouldn't be RC.
> It depends on how strong you expect a Recommends to be. My impression
> was, it's a "install the recommended package unless you really know what
> you are doing".
>
> And it's currently supported that in order to aid users a package
> management tool might handle recommends like dependencies. If this
> should continue to be supported, they have to be treated the same way.
I agree here. However, if the RMs also agree. a (RC-)policy
clarification would be a nice thing to do.
Cheers,
Andi
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