Bug#504042: perl-doc recommendation

2008-12-18 Thread Niko Tyni
tag 442805 - wontfix thanks On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 02:40:48AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Many of the complaints about Debian's handling of documentation came > from IRC, where recommendations of "perldoc -f whatever" were often > met with a response from the querent of "perdoc not found". Th

Bug#504042: perl-doc recommendation

2008-12-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan meant: > "apt-get install perl" should install perl-doc because the user is > interested in perl but "apt-get install dpkg-dev" which does also depend > on perl should not install perl-doc because perl-doc is not r

Bug#504042: perl-doc recommendation

2008-12-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello. > > Brendan O'Dea wrote: > [snip] > > So you may be able to downgrade the recommendation to a suggests, > > although a better suggestion might be for apt/dpkg to support a > > "Soft-Recommends" which would be installed by default only when t

Bug#504042: perl-doc recommendation

2008-12-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello. Brendan O'Dea wrote: [snip] > So you may be able to downgrade the recommendation to a suggests, > although a better suggestion might be for apt/dpkg to support a > "Soft-Recommends" which would be installed by default only when the > package was directly selected, rather than pulled in as a

Bug#504042: perl-doc recommendation

2008-12-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
[+#504042, debian-dpkg, deity] On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could use some backing with #504042 / #496770 (perl-doc gets pulled > in by default). > > You tagged #442805 as wontfix with > >> There is a bit of history with the perl-doc package... The perl