Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"): > To be fair, it seems to me that Joss has provided an additional answer > to the "why recommends?" question in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2012/09/msg00089.html > > For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends > do not behave properly across upgrades".
That's a reason not to use Recommends in metapackages everywhere (indeed, it's _the_ reason why metapackages shouldn't just all use Recommends). But in this specific case, it isn't a good reason, because the bug (failing to honour a newly-appearing Recommends) will not occur in the case of people upgrading from squeeze's "gnome", because the squeeze's "gnome" package already had that recommends. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20600.27758.415028.479...@chiark.greenend.org.uk