On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:31:44 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Maybe if evince doesn't fail miserably if libspectre1 or other dependencies > > of > > the backends aren't found, we could exclude them from Depends and put them > > on > > Recommends, or maybe split the backends into separate packages (I don't like > > this). Downgrading them to recommends sounds better, but we should find a > > way to > > autogenerate the recommends, maybe running dpkg-shlibdeps for > > usr/lib/evince/backends and placing the result in Recommends (not sure if > > this > > would be possible). > > Although this would work, we would get gazillions of bug reports saying > that evince cannot read PS documents. > > No, thanks.
recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too often. and when you do get a bug like this, you can easily respond with "make sure you have all recommends installed." i don't think decisions should be made solely on the possibliity an increasing number of bug reports... mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
