]] Michael Stapelberg 

Hiya,

> Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2012-06-30 09:14:32)
> > It'd mean a circular dependency, which is icky.  But it begs the
> > question, you write that you're not using libpam-systemd, so I'd like to
> > ask why not?
>
> It’s a recommends, not a dependency, therefore it doesn’t get installed
> on my system by default. I wasn’t aware that using it would prevent the
> situation described in this bug report from happening, so I just didn’t
> bother to install it :-).

Fair enough, given there are a bunch of bogus recommends in the
archive.  I try to use the definition given in the policy manual though:

  The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
  with this one in all but unusual installations.

so for my packages, I do really recommend you install recommends. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are



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