Wow this is an old issue (and still true as of artful) :-/ Maybe that really would be better off as a suggests. In a graphical environment as suggested before it is around via the dep from xorg and others.
But other than feeling embarrased that this is around for so long I think this is nothing that should be changed in Ubuntu individually. That we should do in sync with Debian. Therefore if anybody still (or newly re-en-kindled) cares it would be great to file that with Debian and we pick it up from there. Also IIRC cjwatson takes care of it in Ubuntu AND Debian so he certainly has more experience to decide on this. ** Tags added: needs-upstream-report -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270512 Title: openssh-client could suggest xauth rather than recommend it Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: openssh-client is in the standard seed. It recommends xauth, which as of intrepid pulls the following packages in a basic server install : xauth |- libxext6 |- libxmuu1 |- x11-common It would pull even more if there wasn't already another Recommend bug in the minimal seed that pulled other X libraries (see bug 270500). Server systems do pretty well without those packages installed by default. Solution: drop the xauth "Recommends" and make it a "Suggests" instead. Note that xauth gets pulled in in desktop installs through a xorg Depends, and that in Hardy xauth wasn't in the standard seed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/270512/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
