Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-31
Severity: important
Brief explanation: tetex-bin Recommends perl-tk and texi2html, but
these packages seem to be unnecessary for standard usage of the package.
The Recommends should be downgraded to a Suggests.
Policy defines the Recommends field as follows:
`Recommends'
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.
There is no reason that I can see that texi2html should be installed
alongside tetex-bin unless you want to produce HTMLified output, and it
doesn't seem to me that this is a common case. And perl-tk seems to be
mainly used by some obscure utility programs. These Recommendations
should be downgraded to Suggests.
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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