The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > On 2018-10-25 at 20:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of >> functionality. > This does not actually seem to conflict with the "would be found > together in all but unusual installations" definition for Recommends; in > a case where the depending package can still provide meaningful > functionality without the depended-on package, but will miss "a > significant amount of functionality" if the latter package is not > present, both definitions would seem equally applicable. I don't know why you would expect otherwise? That seems entirely natural and expected given that Depends is a stronger relationship than Recommends, and therefore is naturally a subset of the things that would qualify as Recommends. You choose the strongest relationship that is applicable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>