Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
>>> Please change this Depends into a Suggests, since even Recommends is
>>> too strong (having a binary driver on a Sony system is hardly a
>>> typical installation - which would fit the definition for Recommends).
>> What about checking existing bugs?
> 
> Sorry, I did that, but I didn't thought that I should look in the will not fix
> area (since it seems reasonable  IMHO to fix this issue).
> 
>> Closing this one as we already have one... see #445900.
> 
> I'll keep my comments there, too.
> 
> Note: I really think that Suggests is the right thing to have here. Recommends
> or Depends are too strong.

OTOH, Enhances with triggers[1] seems to be the best solution to this issue, so
the support is enabled on case to case basis. Until the trigger functionality
finds its way back to debian (ubuntu already has it), I guess Suggests or
Recommends is the way to go.


[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00006.html
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