tag 442805 - wontfix thanks On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 02:40:48AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> Many of the complaints about Debian's handling of documentation came > from IRC, where recommendations of "perldoc -f whatever" were often > met with a response from the querent of "perdoc not found". These > complaints have subsequently been addressed by the addition of the > stub perldoc which provides instructions to "apt-get install > perl-doc". > > So you may be able to downgrade the recommendation to a suggests, > although a better suggestion might be for apt/dpkg to support a > "Soft-Recommends" which would be installed by default only when the > package was directly selected, rather than pulled in as a dependency. OK, lacking that I think I'll go for the downgrading. The perldoc stub seems to be a working compromise. Untagging, we'll see if it's too late for lenny. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
