On Wed, 25 May 2005, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello people,
Hi > Some of my packages have a separate -locales or -languages package that > (indeed) contains the locales of my package. E.g. squirrelmail has a > companion squirrelmail-locales that you need if you want to use > SquirrelMail in a language other than English. Let's take that package > as an example. > > My question is what relationship I should specify in the squirrelmail > package w.r.t. squirrelmail-locales: Depends, Recommends, or Suggests? > I've looked but could not find anything in the Debian Policy or other > materials that has a 'standard' or 'best practice' for it. > > I'm pretty sure that Depends is not right: the squirrelmail package is > completely usable without s-l to those that only need an English interface. Indeed, Depends is not right. > Recommends or Suggests is a bit trickier. Recommends is about "all but > unusual installations", and Suggests claims "that installing this one > without them is perfectly reasonable". > > Is there any common policy for which I should choose? And if not, what > are your opinions on this matter? If some parts can not be used without some package installed (or if all but unusual installations) => Recommends This is perfectly reasonable to use in this case IMHO. Suggests is IMO only for stuff not in Debian main or if only a minority use the mentioned package together with this package. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
