[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#796009: Package cacti depends on libjs-jquery-cookie. Currently libjs-jquery-cookie is shown as Recommended

[Paul Gevers]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi Manos,

On 18-08-15 16:52, Manos Saratsis wrote:
> I am using "Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
> and I have installed cacti on this box.

Great.

> I installed only the packages that cacti depends on but not the
> recommended

This is your choice, but not the default in Debian.

> and there was a jquery related issue that I could not
> navigate through graphs by clicking on the different graph trees but
> this works when you open the graph tree in new tab.

I understand that cacti is less manageable than ideal, but I believe it
still works.

> I suggest that the package cacti depends on the libjs-jquery-cookie and
> shouldn't be on the recommended packages list.

I don't agree. Recommends is exactly for this purpose¹:
 This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
 The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
 with this one in all but unusual installations.

This means that your setup is "unusual" and that is your own choice.

Paul

¹
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps

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