On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:44:04AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Sorry, what do you mean to say here? Are you claiming that having debug > > packages in Recommends: is somehow a "fix"? I'm quite sure that doesn't fit > > the Policy definition of Recommends -- debugging applications is not at all > > relevant to the common case, the common case should be that applications > > don't need debugged. ;)
> In March, Josselin made gnome depend on gnome-dbg and > gnome-desktop-environment recommend gnome-dbg in order to receive > meaningful backtraces from people running unstable or testing -- this > would have been reverted before the release. > Now, in SVN, gnome-desktop-environment only suggests gnome-dbg and > gnome only recommends it. I suppose gnome won't recommend it in the > final stable release. Hmm. I would argue that gnome shouldn't recommend gnome-dbg either, according to policy. -- 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]