Re: Please unblock desktop-base/4.0.1
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:37:31AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Package: desktop-base
> > Architecture: all
> > -Recommends: epiphany-browser | konqueror | www-browser
> > +Depends: librsvg2-common
> That was me in r70 of the debian-desktop SVN; I failed to document the
> cleanup of the browser I made. Here's how it went:
> - we discussed Recommends versus Depends on librsvg2-common with Joey
> Hess since Recommends are not pulled by tasksel, so either you have
> to list the package you want pulled in by default in the task, or you
> depend on it; Joey Hess correctly suggested we depend on it
> (<http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2007/01/threads.html#00078>)
> - I went to do the switch to Depends from Recommends and noticed weird
> Recommends on browsers like you see above; these are in since forever
> (since the initial import to SVN), and they are weird because
> desktop-base is supposedly a data package
> - I decided to remove these since I knew we spent some time fixing the
> default browser situation in tasksel + meta-gnome2, and this seemed
> like a superfluous place to hardcode the browser dependency again and
> since the package had no HTML, or use of a browser
> - I failed to document the removal of the (IMO bogus) recommends on
> browsers above -- but I mentionned the rsvg dep
> So, sorry for missing that part; I think this removes potentially
> dangerous recommends on browsers which should be pulled in the
> desktop's meta packages instead, and not by the desktop-base
> meta-package.
Ok, makes sense -- unblocked.
Thanks,
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