Bug#333610: Excessive Recommends
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
I generally agree with you. However, I think we should not adress this bug
until we have decided about the new splitting scheme for tetex-bin;
maybe there'll be a package then that really "Recommends: perl-tk".
Thank you for reporting, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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