On 6/24/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Bill Allombert] > > The `Depends' field should be used if the depended-on package is > > required for the depending package to provide a significant > > amount of functionality. > > I'd say if a -data package is useless without its corresponding binary > package, that fits this definition just fine. Policy does not specify > *why* a package might fail to provide significant functionality without > the presence of something else. (Unless you wish to argue that -data > packages provide no functionality, which seems a pretty arbitrary > definition of 'functionality'.)
I'd argue for exactly that. What functionality would you say a data package provides? It's the other package that provides the functionality, not the data package. The data package shouldn't even have to know about the other package.
