Re: Re: Additional info about recommended/suggested packages

2011-05-18 Thread Eshat Cakar
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg00701.html Of course that should be [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Additional info about recommended/suggested packages

2011-05-18 Thread Eshat Cakar
> In Debian we do this via package descriptions since the > recommends/suggests are not meant to be human readable information. The DPM does not mention information about suggested/recommended packages in the description field [1]. Only "significant dependencies and conflicts" are named. This migh

Re: Additional info about recommended/suggested packages

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
In Debian we do this via package descriptions since the recommends/suggests are not meant to be human readable information. I would suggest filing bugs on any packages you feel could benefit from such information in the package description. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Additional info about recommended/suggested packages

2011-05-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:26:13PM +0200, Eshat Cakar wrote: > At the moment there is no way to get more information about > suggested/recommended packages, except their names. In particular I am > talking > about which functionality is added when also installing them. Yes, I think there should