Re: missing recommends are not RC severity
- To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: missing recommends are not RC severity
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:28:11 +0000
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hi,
dropping -devel@, adding -release@ and -policy@, I'm wondering if this
should be resolved somehow...:
A few days ago I wrote:
> > >if your package recommends a package which is not available, this is a
> > >normal bug, not one with RC severity (and neither an important one).
To which on Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:04:47PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Policy 2.2.1 pretty clearly says otherwise.
Then on Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:14:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> While the release policy says "Packages in main cannot require any
> software outside of main for execution or compilation. "Recommends:" lines
> do not count as requirements."
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cheers,
Holger
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