Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.10
Severity: wishlist
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Hi lintian team,
With Install-Recommends being the default, I've noticed that a lot of
documentation packages are pulled in. These are sometimes large and not
strictly "[should] be found together with this one [package] in all but
unusual installations".
- From policy 7.2 Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances,
Pre-Depends
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.
Suggests
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or
more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that
the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its
usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly
reasonable.
It would be good if there were a lintian warning or informational tag like
doc-package-in-recommends with a suggestion that the dependency be downgraded
to suggests.
Thank you for your work on lintian.
Giridhar
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.26 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
- -- no debconf information
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