Package: runit-services
Version: 0.3.0
Severity: normal
A common use i've seen for the runit-services package is to grab a
single service directory for a particular system service that needs to
be better-supervised than it is by default under sysvinit.
In this situation, i think the sysadmin would not want socklog-run
installed, and would have no reason to expect/need dash.
According to policy [0], Recommends means "The Recommends field should
list packages that would be found together with this one in all but
unusual installations."
Suggests "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."
Given that the use case described above is perfectly reasonable, (and
that aptitude is now installing Recommends by default), it makes sense
to move dash and socklog-run into Suggests instead of Recommends.
Thanks for maintaining this package in debian. runit is a great suite
in the unix tradition.
Regards,
--dkg
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
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