package: libdnet severity: important version: 2.59 justification: libraries should not impact global system state.
It's entirely reasonable for a random program that supports decnet to link against the libdnet library. To my shock, there are programs that support decnet, but apparently it's not their primary purpose: i totem Recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad i A gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad Depends libopenal1 i A libopenal1 Recommends libroar-compat2 i A libroar-compat2 Depends libroar2 i A libroar2 Depends libdnet Unfortunately, we then come to i A libdnet Recommends dnet-common (>= 2.59) so, because I install some media player, my system wants to reconfigure its ethernet adapters. That's not right. I think the general rule here is that the recommends on a package that enables the system service should be on programs whose primary purpose is to interact with decnet, *not* on libraries that might be an optional component of something else. --Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
