# This has been fixed in Git commit c8cc2f3f6cc1b9b9000e7d29be2dbc7f54d325c2.
# See git.tokkee.org.
tags 447781 + pending
thanks

Hi,

I just noticed that I did not yet send another E-mail about this bug
report - I thought I had done so quite some time ago... ;-)

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:29:12PM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Maximilian Gass wrote:
> > The ncmpc package should only suggest mpd, as Recommends are 
> > "used in all but unusual cases" and it's commen to run a MPD
> > server on your network and have several client systems which don't
> > run the daemon at all.
> 
> I'm not quite sure about that. Basically, you're right but I assume the more
> common case is to have mpd and ncmpc installed on the same system and that
> most users expect mpd to be (automatically) installed as well. If I downgrade
> the recommendation to a suggestion, mpd might even be removed by aptitude upon
> upgrade as it might (I'm not quite sure about that) be marked as unused if no
> package recommends it any longer - this will definitely confuse a lot of users
> like hell.

I've taken a look at other mpd clients available in Debian. Most of them
use a suggestion instead of a recommendation when referencing the mpd
package. I thus decided to go with them and agree with this bug report.

The change will be available in the next upload.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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