On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
So sympa needs _some_ value for cafile, and ca-certificates provides a sane default for _most_ situations.The Recommends: stanza is _exactly intended for such situations.There was a long-time bug in apt-get to wrongly treating Recommends like Suggests. It was a bug and it has been solved. What is left is the wrong assumption amongst those used to the old wrong behaviour of apt-get. You need to un-learn that :-)I disagree:I've spotted the bug because on all the Debian machines I administer (especially servers), I explicitly disable the installation of Suggests and Recommends.After installing SYMPA in a fresh Debian, I wondered why listmanager failed to start. I had to trace the daemon to understand the problem.Hence SYMPA is not fully usable if Recommends are disabled. I think that it's not reasonable.What do you think?
The package is not expected to be "fully usable" when Recommends are ignored.
You disabled the auto-pilot. Now steer manually. Particularly: Now create that file missing since you chose to not have that file provided by a package but would rather create it yourself.
So no, you did not (yet) convince me that this is a real bug. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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