On 2008-04-06 17:37 +0200, James Vega wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:32:40PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> I *did* read the warning about not reporting bug for dependencies in
>> devscripts but I really fail to see why there should be an exception in that
>> package. If I do the same in one of my packages, I'll get an RC bug as
>> reward and that would be deserved.
>
> We're currently changing the packaging to use Recommends instead of
> Suggests. We're not elevating everything to Depends since the required
> functionality of the package varies on which scripts are actually of
> interest to the user. Since Recommends are automatically installed by
> default, though, the user now has to opt-out of the extra packages
> instead of opt-in.
This is a change for the worse, IMHO. Judging by the posts I've read in
the past on debian-user, at least 95% of the users did _not_ install
recommended packages by default, because that would pull in a lot of
arbitrary stuff they did not want. I've been in the 5% minority, been
able to handle this with some hassle, but after the change to install
recommendations by default the situation had improved. And now you come
and want to install lots of (for me) useless cruft, even stuff that's
only useful for servers (why do you want ssh, wouldn't openssh-client
suffice?).
You only achieve _one_ thing by this change: everybody¹ turns off the
automatic installation of recommended packages, like they did before,
and complains that installing recommendations by default is broken
because it brings in arbitrary stuff nobody wants.
Regards,
Sven
¹ At least 95% of the users, as above
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