Control: retitle -1 sane-airscan: missing dependency on sane-utils
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 +pending
Le samedi, 30 janvier 2021, 15.13:25 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :
> On a system without a SANE frontend or libsane1, sane-airscan is
> effectively useless. I reckon there should be a Depends: on at
> least sane-utils.
>
> I hope the severity level is not over the top.
Hello there Brian, and thanks for this bug report!
traditionally, dependencies go "top-down"; from tools to libraries, and from
generic utils to backends, not in reverse. For example, libsane1 is
effectively useless on its own on my laptop; and it doesn't depend on sane-
utils.
So, this missing dependency doesn't
* makes the package in question unusable by most or all users, or
* causes data loss, or
* introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use
the package
(definition of the "grave" severity).
It _does_ make it a no-op, and useless, but not "unuseable", I'd argue. Also,
the side-effect of a "grave" severity is that it makes the package subject to
auto-removal from the next stable release, as "release-critical bug". In other
words, such a severity marks a package as unfit for release (== the release
would be better off without this package, rather than with this bug). For all
these reasons, an "important" severity seems much more adequate (to me).
All this said, I think it's a valid bug, and I'll therehore add a sane-utils
"Recommends"; this will pull it by default, but not enforce it.
Best regards,
OdyX
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