On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:11:22PM +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > as long as your attention rests at inkscape, may I ask you a question > about Bug #328423?
> Olleg asked to move the stuff in Recommends: to Suggests: and argues: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:49:16AM +0400, Olleg Samoylov wrote: > > >So I'm not totally sure what would be the best way to follow here. > > Let's see > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps > > 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. > > As I undestand the definition all modules and plugins must be declared > > as suggests. Without it inscape give warning message "One or more > > extensions failed to load". This is not very bad, but for newbie debian > > user looked like something go wrong. But debian user expirienced enough > > to uncheck "unstall suggests by default" will be not confused by this > > warning. But I may mistake. May be better ask some of Debian Guru? > I think that he is right, but in the beginning I had it in Suggests and > got a bug report to move it to Recommends. So I think the solution would > be to put all this into Suggests and add a README.Debian explaining > which packages are needed for which effect. What do you think? I really have no strong opinion on the question; the best guides to Recommends vs. Suggests are the wording in policy, and user feedback. :) It sounds to me like these would be better as Suggests than Recommends, but I don't know the package, so I don't have much to base that judgement on... Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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