[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#723022: Bug#723022: [pandoc] package split with only Recommends: causes FTBFS on other packages

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sun Sep 15 14:30:32 UTC 2013


Quoting Timo Weingärtner (2013-09-15 15:39:11)
> pandoc only Recommends: pandoc-data, so packages Build-Depending on 
> pandoc for e.g. manpage generation will FTBFS.
> 
> Please change the Recommends: into a Depends:

Pandoc is usable without those datafiles, for some special uses.

I believe the proper thing to do is for such packages to build-depend 
also on pandoc-data.


 - Jonas

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