Re: [nmap] polkit on Recommends vs Depends

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> I think it's safe to downgrade to Recommends, as most users install
> recommends anyway.
> 
> I will do it soon if there isn't any objections to this.

Yeah, fine for me.

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Re: [nmap] polkit on Recommends vs Depends

[Samuel Henrique]

I think it's safe to downgrade to Recommends, as most users install
recommends anyway.

I will do it soon if there isn't any objections to this.

Thanks

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Samuel Henrique 

[nmap] polkit on Recommends vs Depends

[Samuel Henrique]

Hello team,

I uploaded a new release of nmap yesterday, fixing #890728 [0].

I used the Ubuntu patch, which was adding polkit as Recommends, but I
bumped it to Depends by the following policy part:
"The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required
for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality."

Because the desktop file for zenmap as root won't work without polkit, and
zenmap being a gui tool, I assume most users will start it from their DEs.

Today I've got a bug report #912452 [1] about that, I was not aware that
polkit adds a Dependency on systemd, which makes nmap not installable on
SysV systems.

I think I should have left as Recommends, but as I mentioned on the bug
report, I would like to check with the team before doing that, to confirm
that we can downgrade it do Recommends even if it breaks the desktop file
for zenmap as root.

[0]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=890728
[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912452
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