Bug#662587: libgps20: please demote gpsd Recommends to Suggests
Hi, On 2012-03-30 21:24, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Could you provide some more details why you think that installing the package is not what users want in substantial number of cases? My rationale is: Policy 7.2: The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. Then, as I noted in my previous mail, anyone installing/upgrading kdebase-workspace (i.e., even minimal KDE installation) will install libgps which will pull gpsd by default. Then I assume it's not unusual for Debian KDE users to not want gpsd by default. I also thought that we have a soft consensus that libraries should not recommend applications but cannot find any references right now, so maybe this thought is wrong. I agree that the size of gpsd is small if we talk about disk space, but I guess am not the only one who tries to have as less as possible extra packages in the system. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662587: libgps20: please demote gpsd Recommends to Suggests
tag 662587 moreinfo thanks 'Recommends: gpsd' causes every application which depends on libgps [1] grab gpsd by default, which I believe not what users want in substantial number of cases. with Installed-Size: 219 and gpsd not being started by default (if it does for some reason it is eiter a bug or you have a device which looks like a gps device) I don't think it is a big piece of trouble. Could you provide some more details why you think that installing the package is not what users want in substantial number of cases? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662587: libgps20: please demote gpsd Recommends to Suggests
Package: libgps20 Version: 3.3-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 'Recommends: gpsd' causes every application which depends on libgps [1] grab gpsd by default, which I believe not what users want in substantial number of cases. [1] like new plasma-dataengines-workspace, which is an absolute dependency for even minimal KDE workspace: -8- $ cupt why plasma-dataengines-workspace kdebase-workspace 4:4.6.3-1: Depends: kdebase-workspace-bin (= 4:4.6.3-1) kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.6.3-1: Depends: plasma-desktop (= 4:4.6.3-1) | plasma-netbook (= 4:4.6.3-1) plasma-desktop 4:4.6.3-1: Depends: plasma-widgets-workspace (= 4:4.6.3-1) plasma-widgets-workspace 4:4.6.3-1: Depends: plasma-dataengines-workspace (= 4:4.6.3-1) -8- -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libgps20 depends on: ii libbluetooth3 4.96-1 ii libc6 2.13-7 ii libdbus-1-31.4.18-1 ii libgcc11:4.6.2-11 ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-11 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.8-2 ii multiarch-support 2.13-10 Versions of packages libgps20 recommends: ii gpsd 3.3-5 libgps20 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
