Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends
Package: trn Version: 3.6-2 It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn. Bdale
Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends
Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"): > Package: trn > Version: 3.6-2 > > It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport > and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends > makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn. Recommends is correct. You can read news perfectly happily without either a mail transport or a news article injector. I'll reassign the bug report to tin. Ian.
Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"): > > Package: trn > > Version: 3.6-2 > > > > It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport > > and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends > > makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn. > > Recommends is correct. You can read news perfectly happily without > either a mail transport or a news article injector. > > I'll reassign the bug report to tin. Are you sure this is right? Normal functionality of tin allows the user to mail a response or the article to an address. Would it be correct for the system to allow someone to install a package where some of the functionality is missing? This would surely generate another defect report. I suppose recommends is a strong enough relationship that the system maintainer would realize that some functionality may be missing if a recommended package is missing. I will make the change to the tin package. --- Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a new generation in s/w devel/support [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux - a much improved Un*x clone (708)740-4008 | Debian - a Linux distribution setting the #include |standard for future distributions
Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends
Kenny Wickstrom writes ("Re: Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"): > On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"): > > Recommends is correct. You can read news perfectly happily without > > either a mail transport or a news article injector. > > > > I'll reassign the bug report to tin. > > Are you sure this is right? Normal functionality of tin allows the user > to mail a response or the article to an address. Would it be correct for > the system to allow someone to install a package where some of the > functionality is missing? This would surely generate another defect > report. No, because it's actually pretty hard to install a package using dselect and fail to select its Recommended packages too. You can do it with dpkg, but such bug reports are easy to close (and I think that most people using dpkg manually will probably have enough of a clue to think a bit more about what they're doing). > I suppose recommends is a strong enough relationship that the system > maintainer would realize that some functionality may be missing if a > recommended package is missing. That is part of the definition of the Recommended relationship. > I will make the change to the tin package. Thanks, Ian.