On April 25, 2004 13:10, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Why is menu-xdg only a Recommended by kdelibs-bin ? IIUC, it is > needed for Debian policy conformance, and as such should be a hard > depends, no ?
The question of which package should document and/or have a package relationship with menu-xdg is separate from the question of the proper strength of the package relationship. As to this second issue, the Debian Menu System documentation, Ch. 5, states: --------- Please, do not make your package depend on the menu package! The preferred way of telling dpkg that your wm can cooperate with menu is: Suggests: menu Please only consider using "depends" if you feel providing reasonable defaults for systems without menu will make life very difficult for you. --------- If I understand correctly, all that Menu Policy requires of KDE is that it give users the option of using the Debian menu system. A Depends is not at all required, since not everyone wants to have the Debian menu system. So a Recommends is more than enough - in fact, we really should downgrade menu to a Suggests. GNOME, blackbox, etc. all Suggest menu. No one Depends on it. Interestingly, the part of GNOME that Suggests menu is gnome-panel. Maybe kicker should do the same, instead of kdelibs-bin. Cheers, Chris