Bug#474559: Excessive Recommendations (was: Bug#474559: devscripts: *must* depend on libparse-debcontrol-perl)

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Sven, On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:08:02AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > This is a change for the worse, IMHO. Judging by the posts I've read in I disagree. > 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

Bug#474559: Excessive Recommendations (was: Bug#474559: devscripts: *must* depend on libparse-debcontrol-perl)

2008-04-07 Thread Sven Joachim
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

Bug#474559: devscripts: *must* depend on libparse-debcontrol-perl

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting James Vega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 a

Bug#474559: devscripts: *must* depend on libparse-debcontrol-perl

2008-04-06 Thread James Vega
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

Bug#474559: devscripts: *must* depend on libparse-debcontrol-perl

2008-04-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.21 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 debchange uses the Parse:DebControl module and devscripts only Suggests libparse-debcontrol-perl. I *did* read the warning about not reporting bug for dependencies in devscripts but I really fail to see why there sho