Am 18.10.2015 um 20:46 schrieb tony mancill: > On 10/17/2015 03:01 PM, Kristoffer H Rose wrote: [...] >> The package should at least 'Recommend' apt-file. > > Hello Kristoffer, > > Thank you for the bug report. I tend to agree that a stronger > dependency is warranted, and personally m-d-h should just Depend on > apt-file. In fact, Recommends used to be the relationship, but it was > changed in 2011: > >> commit bd309118603d193d1355516ff3a9d120ff885c05 >> Author: Ludovic Claude <ludovic.cla...@laposte.net> >> Date: Wed Jun 8 22:55:16 2011 +0000 >> >> * Move apt-file, devscripts, subversion from Recommends: to Suggests: as >> they are only required when mh_make is used
> I have moved devscripts and apt-file back to Recommends for the next > upload. If someone feels strongly that this isn't appropriate, we can > discuss on the list. Hi tony, not a real objection, but.. I think Ludovic was right to move apt-file from Recommends to Suggests since it is only used by mh_make and mh_make will never be used automatically. In fact it is just a helper tool to create an initial debian directory for Maven based packages and is not used for anything else. mh_make even tells you to install apt-file, so I feel that Suggests: is a good choice here and ensures that apt-file is not pulled in needlessly. Regards, Markus
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