Bug#648443: recommend libx11-doc
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:12:48 +0100 (CET) ydir...@free.fr wrote: > > libx11-dev is not installed by > > default. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-bug. > > Policy says: > > `Recommends' > This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. > > The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found > together with this one in all but unusual installations. > > Today it is quite common (and I would argue that it is the most common case) > to install -dev packages just to be able to compile some software. Thus it > is not unusual at all not to need -doc packages. And in fact the vast > majority > of Debian packages only has a Suggests: relationship between -dev and -doc > packages, > including several xorg packages (xcb, xaw...) > > In the context where Debian gets installed more and more on space-constrained/ > embedded platforms, installing it by default is even less relevant. I second this. Corresponding -doc packages should be suggested, not recommended, by -dev packages. Nothing more annoying than asking for necessary -dev dependencies, which should in the order of a few KBs, only to get 10 to 100 MBs of documentation being pulled along. Ghis
Bug#648443: recommend libx11-doc
> libx11-dev is not installed by > default. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-bug. Policy says: `Recommends' This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. Today it is quite common (and I would argue that it is the most common case) to install -dev packages just to be able to compile some software. Thus it is not unusual at all not to need -doc packages. And in fact the vast majority of Debian packages only has a Suggests: relationship between -dev and -doc packages, including several xorg packages (xcb, xaw...) In the context where Debian gets installed more and more on space-constrained/ embedded platforms, installing it by default is even less relevant.
Bug#648443: recommend libx11-doc
Control: tags -1 wontfix On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:01:33 +0200, tipos...@tiscali.it wrote: > I see after 2 years this bug is still open, because I was about to > report the same issue. > > The -doc package also has in the description > > " > This package contains supplemental documentation for the library found > in libx11-6. Non-developers likely have little use for this package." > > > So I see no reason to have it installed automatically by default. Could > you remove the recommend? It should not be more than a couple of > minutes of work. > I have no idea what you're on about. libx11-dev is not installed by default. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-bug. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
