Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"):
> Package: trn
> Version: 3.6-2
>
> It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport
> and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends
> makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn.Recommends is correct. You can read news perfectly happily without either a mail transport or a news article injector. I'll reassign the bug report to tin. Ian.
