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Bug#333610: marked as done (Excessive Recommends)

Your message dated Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:25:00 +0100
with message-id <20091227122500.GA2976@PC23>
and subject line Re: Bug#333610: Excessive Recommends
has caused the Debian Bug report #333610,
regarding Excessive Recommends
to be marked as done.

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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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On 13.10.05 Daniel Burrows (dburrows@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> 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.
> 
tetex is not an own package any more, but a transitional package for
TeX Live -> Closing.

If you find excessive recommends in TL package, please report them
there.

H.
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