Hi Ludovic,
martin f krafft wrote in 2008:
Package: backuppc
Version: 3.1.0-3
Severity: normal
I appreciate that backuppc can work with the SMB protocol, but
I don't need that on any of my machines. Thus, I also don't want to
install smbclient or samba-common on those machines. Please make
that a suggestion or recommendation, not a dependency.
ldro...@free.fr wrote in 2009:
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny1
severity 488098 wishlist
Could you please at least give a reason why you
a) regard this as wishlist bug despite it (at least IMHO) clearly
violates a should directive in section 7.2 of the Debian Policy,
and
b) don't fix it despite it's very trivial to fix, very annoying in
Linux-only environments and has a very low impact elsewhere?
Recommends are installed by default and people who are deactivating
their automatic installation are supposed to know what they are doing,
so downgrading this to Recommends should do no harm in default
installations at all:
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
functionality.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
Making backups via SMB is surely not a significant amount of
functionality but fits perfectly into would be found together with
this one in all but unusual installations -- although I don't count
linux-only as unusual. :-)
Regards, Axel
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