Hi Luca, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:27:59PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
This seems to me an example where you want Recommends: instead of Depends:
I fully agree with you. I am myself on a general crusade for lowering as much possible depends to recommends, so no further arguments needed
:-)
PS2, gs-cjk-resource needs two packages to be fully functional:
cmap-adobe-* and ttf-*, but only the former are listed as
Recommends:, with the latter being only as Suggests:, which is IMHO
a bug, both should be at the same level, according to the
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I agree that there are issues with the gs-cjk-resource package. It is plural issues: also one of or'ing the relationships for the multiple CJK supportive areas instead of declaring them independently. I have encouraged the maintainer to move it to co-maintainance at the Debian Printing Team with the intend of helping weed out things like that myself, but have not yet heard back on that proposal. I have not yet been bothered enough to file bugreports yet (for some weird reason I find it more bothersome to file bugreports than to fully package code and maintain it for years).
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