True.

TBH, LP bug reporter should not have installed only -common package

What do you think is the best way to help people like this.

I am thinking to change -common

 recommend: debian-reference-en|debian-reference

Osamu

On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 00:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: debian-reference-common
> Version: 2.80
> Severity: important
> 
> debian-reference-common should not recommend debian-reference, which
> is a "metapackage to install (all) translations of Debian Reference".
> 
> With the current situation, if the user wants to install
> debian-reference-fr, he will get debian-reference-common too
> due to the Depends, then debian-reference and all the translations
> due to the Recommends. In general, the user will want just one or
> two language versions, not all of them! If he wants all of them,
> then he should install debian-reference directly.

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