Hi,
Sebastian Rasmussen wrote:
> > Hard dependencies of single tools are listed in the Recommends field
> > of the package and optional dependencies of single tools in the
> > Suggests field -- as common with many "collection" style Debian packages.
>
> Oh! This is the first time I have encountered this in _any_ Debian
> package.
Typical such packages, probably sorted by visibility:
* devscripts
* debian-goodies
* monitoring-plugins
* pkg-perl-tools
* hobbit-plugins
Would probably belong into this category, but have no dependencies at
all:
* debianutils
* sensible-utils
> Thanks for pointing this out to me, now know of the pattern until
> next time.
You're welcome.
> Even if this report apparently caused grief for you,
Admittedly. yeah, sorry. There's a reason why that last paragraph has
been added to the package description... This has been reported quite
a few times already.
Basic reasoning behind this:
Some users might want to install such a package just because of one
tool and for them the package works fine without the dependencies of
other tools. Hence it's usable at least for some users.
> at least I took the time to report what I thought was a bug.
You actually did quite some research, so I was quite surprised that
you didn't have a look at the package description, too.
> It could have been a real bug that you wanted to have fixed... :)
Ack. And I also checked before replying that these packages are
actually listed in the Recommends header to make sure they're not
missing where they belong to.
Regards, Axel
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