Package: muttprint
Version: 0.72d-1
Severity: important
Brief explanation:
muttprint Recommends: slrn is an abuse of Recommends and should be dropped or
downgraded to a Suggests.
Policy defines Recommends as follows:
`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.
I submit that it is not uncommon for people to install muttprint
without installing slrn, or indeed any newsreader at all...or at least
it would be if your Recommends line didn't pull one in automatically.
The Recommendation of perl seems a bit pointless as well, since it's
an Essential package. If you don't actually need it, why Recommend it?
If muttprint breaks with earlier versions of perl, shouldn't it declare
versioned Dependency instead?
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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