retitle 527363 [checks/fields] shared library packages should not recommend documentation thanks
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <app...@debian.org> writes: > With Install-Recommends being the default, I've noticed that a lot of > documentation packages are pulled in. These are sometimes large and > not strictly "[should] be found together with this one [package] in > all but unusual installations". [...] > It would be good if there were a lintian warning or informational tag > like doc-package-in-recommends with a suggestion that the dependency > be downgraded to suggests. Based on subsequent debian-devel discussion, there seems to be a lot of disagreement with lowering documentation packages in general to Suggests and a lot of people who feel that documentation should come with at least some packages in all but unusual installations. I think the one thing that everyone agrees on is that library packages shouldn't recommend documentation packages, so I'll leave that part of this bug open, but noting the rest here for future reference. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
