Re: Bug#52191: recommends should be depends
Hi!
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
> Package: debiandoc-sgml
>
> While figuring out the build depends for apt, I came across an interesting
> problem.
>
> Apt needs debiandoc-sgml to build, which is fine. However, when converting
> the sgml to its output format, it fails, for lack of the nescessary perl
> libraries, namely, libi18n-langtags-perl and liburi-perl.
>
> Jason has said that debiandoc-sgml is useless without these, and I would agree
> with him. Also, if these suggests are not changed, then lots of pkgs will
> have to have build depends on these recommended packages, and it will increase
> the work load of other maintainers.
We definitely don't want this. :-)
> I do not know if the other recommends should be changed to depends, however.
Since HTML is our preferred format it makes sense to change the
recommends for all packages needed for this into depends. For the
other formats the recommends can stay as they are.
It'll be fixed in the next release.
Thanks,
Ardo
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