Re: Debian Policy questions
>>>>> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Lu, 11 iul 11, 14:51:48, William Hopkins wrote:
> Old thread, but still...
>> Absolutely! Easy to find examples with apt-cache rdepends dbus. I
>> would posit that nearly all packages that depend on DBUS should
>> actually depend on libdbus{,-c++,-java,-ruby}. Do these packages
>> (such as rhythmbox) fail to work if DBUS isn't running? No.. the
>> calls are never calls required for running, only for nifty extra
>> features like telling your systray what song you're listening to.
> [snip more explanations]
> As far as I can tell from my limited experience you are right. I
> would suggest you file bugs in the BTS as you find such
> occurrences. Of course it helps a lot if you also provide patches and
> maybe also raise the severity a bit. 'wishlist' is very polite, but
> 'minor' or even higher might be apropiate in some cases.
> If you don't receive any reply you could investigate whether the
> package is unmaintained and take action accordingly.
I wonder if there should be a separate mailing list to Cc: such
bug reports. (debian-dependency-inquisitors@, perhaps?)
I seem to remember that there was a longstanding issue with
Depends: logrotate. Of course, no package should ever be
“rendered unusable” (which, AIUI, is the very essense of
Depends:) should logrotate not be installed! Yet, there seem to
be something like 45 packages that Depends: on it as per Debian
Wheezy.
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