Processed: Re: Bug#919962: Errors caused by not installing Recommend packages

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> severity -1 normal
Bug #919962 [goaccess] Errors caused by not installing Recommend packages
Severity set to 'normal' from 'serious'
> retitle -1 goaccess: absence of optional packages looks like an error, but 
> it's not
Bug #919962 [goaccess] Errors caused by not installing Recommend packages
Changed Bug title to 'goaccess: absence of optional packages looks like an 
error, but it's not' from 'Errors caused by not installing Recommend packages'.

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Bug#919962: Errors caused by not installing Recommend packages

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 goaccess: absence of optional packages looks like an error, 
but it's not

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:57:22PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> X-Debbugs-Cc: goacc...@prosoftcorp.com
> Package: goaccess
> Version: 1:1.2-4
> 
> Versions of packages goaccess recommends:
> pn  geoip-database
> pn  geoip-database-extra  
> 
> Well one gets the
> Error Opening file /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
> each time one uses the command.
> 
> So please either require the packages, or remove the error.

Note that although the message seems scary, that is a warning and not a
fatal error, so Recommends: is correct.

I will keep this bug open to track making the message that is displayed
more clear.


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