Package: gnucash Version: 1:2.6.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
(continued from bug #741175) On 12 March 2014 02:08, Sébastien Villemot <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that Recommends is the right dependency level, because otherwise > some menu items won't work. Note that you can still uninstall > gnucash-docs, since it is not a strong dependency (contrary to what you > said in the bug title). Anyways, if this is really an important issue > to you, please find a bug against gnucash, which is the right place to > deal with this issue. I've opened a gnucash bug - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726146 - suggesting that when the ondisk documentation is not present gnucash should redirect to the online docs instead of throwing an error. The Debian Policy Manual does say "Packages must not require the existence of any files in /usr/share/doc/ in order to function (The system administrator should be able to delete files in /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.)" There are other -docs packages (clamav, tomcat etc.) that use Suggests rather than Recommends. For a few MB of docs it may not be a big problem, but it is more necessary for gnucash when the docs are so big (>100MB) - not everyone has a fast broadband connection, especially in developing nations. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
