On 2021-08-23 01:15:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > 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
This means that a user who wants to install debian-reference-fr would get debian-reference-en too (by default). This is better than the current behavior, but I don't see the point. I don't understand why debian-reference-common would recommend anything. Installed alone, this package wouldn't do anything useful, but it would not be broken. It is not up to the dependency system to prevent users from doing useless things. And proposing the English version by default may not be the best thing to do (some users may deduce that this is the only version). For instance, similarly, cups-common doesn't depend on or recommend any package. On the opposite, cups depends on cups-common. If the issue is the desktop menu entry, I see 2 solutions: 1. If possible (I don't know whether .desktop files support conditionals), do not provide a menu entry if /usr/share/debian-reference/index.html isn't available (this file is built by /var/lib/dpkg/info/debian-reference-common.postinst when one or several versions of the guide are installed). 2. Always provide a /usr/share/debian-reference/index.html file, and when no versions of the guide are installed, this file should explain that one or several versions (debian-reference-en, debian-reference-fr, etc.) needs to be installed, or debian-reference for all of them. In this case, the test [ -r $BDOCUMENTSTEM/index.html ] in /usr/bin/debian-reference may no longer be needed (since this file should always exist). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
