Great! Thanks! So lyx was supposed to be used for "reading" some documentation? Well, I would not think that lyx can be assumed to be a tool to do so. Octave users will use `help` and `info`, and when necessary, the browser and PDF reader, but certainly not lyx. Thanks for the effort!
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015, 21:34 Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@laboissiere.net> wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > > * Hormet Yiltiz <hyil...@gmail.com> [2015-12-12 19:29]: > > > Package: octave-optim > > Version: 1.4.1-1+b1 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 7.2 > > > > octave-optim suggests lyx, which is a office suite that makes working > > with LaTeX easy, and implements a way for reproducable research. > > However, `lyx` then depends on `texlive`, which is a heavy > > dependency. Octave-optim is a package of GNU Octave, which is used > > for scientific computation. octave-optim, being a package for a > > octave that does the computation, should NOT depend or suggest a 3rd > > party software that is not very related to its usage. > > I disagree with this interpretation. Section 7.2 of the Policy manual > does mandate that: > > "Depends […] The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package > is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of > functionality. […]" > > However, there is no such requirement for the Suggests relationship: > > "Suggests: This is used to declare that one package may be more useful > with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and > the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps > enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is > perfectly reasonable." > > I am therefore downgrading the severity of this bug report to "normal" > hereby. > > That said, I agree with the bug submitter that having to install lyx, > which pulls the whole TeX distribution, is an overkill for just reading > part of the documentation. I am now working on a solution that will ship > the *.pdf instead of the *.lyx, as it is currently the case. This will > eventually fix the bug reported here. > > Rafael > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile.
