Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your interest in this Debian package.
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:48:30AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Package: owncloud > Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1 > Severity: important > This isn't really very nice on a server for what is optional > functionality. Are the thumbnails really an optional functionality? I mean, they are provided by default, unless there are missing dependencies. Installing the needed packages to enable this feature seems to match the policy wording about Recommends (“The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.” 7.2). > I realise this is Recommends, not Depends, and that functionality can be > disabled. But we foresee this tripping up our engineers in the future, > and an accidental upgrade installing a raft of things we don't want. Is this bug actually about “bad” admins that may break the expectations of “good” admins? Is that the reason why you believe this issue is of important severity? > Patch attached, with a slight difference from upstream: > libreoffice|libreoffice-writer gives users the opportunity to just have > libreoffice-writer if they wish. I’m not sure to follow the rationale of suggesting libreoffice-writer as an alternative (one may install whatever they want if they feel the need to, independently of what any package may suggest). The people suggesting libreoffice-writer in the upstream thread have been corrected more than once, what’s your rationale? If we are to consider demoting this recommended tool to a suggestion, why shouldn’t we do the same of the other tools used for thumbnails, as documented in the README (and the upstream admin documentation pulled in via owncloud-doc)? Regards David
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