On Fr, 20 Nov 2009, Eric wrote:
> The Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 7, defines a Recommends as a "strong,
> but not absolute, *dependency*" (emphasis added.) These documentation
> packages should be Suggests, defined as packages that "can perhaps
> enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is
> perfectly reasonable". These packages take approximately 230MB and are
> superfluous, and compared to ~15MB for an example package+dependencies,
> is extreme. 230MB worth of text documentation is a lot to recommend.

Already discussed hundreds of times, this is invalid bug. Please
read up on the Debian BTS for explanations.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   prein...@jaist.ac.jp
Vienna University of Technology                               prein...@logic.at
Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force)                    prein...@debian.org
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