On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 02:26:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: >... > > The majority of users are using the default of treating Recommends > > as dependencies, for them it doesn't make any difference whether > > Recommends or Depends is used. > > > > Not installing Recommends is supported, and desirable in many > > embedded/server/container scenarios. > > That's why bsdmainutils Recommends bsdextrautils and always has. The > only argument here is whether it should be a hard Depends instead. >...
Yes. It only makes a difference when not installing Recommends by default, especially when upgrading from buster. bsdmainutils does depend on bsdutils. >... > > One could make the point that bsdmainutils should > > be a (transitional?) metapackage depending on all > > the tools it previously provided. > > That's my thinking, too. The remaining tools in bsdmainutils are ncal > (which should go into a separate package) and a few tools we could > switch to util-linux or remove. This would also make the Depends/Recommends question above obsolete. > Michael cu Adrian
