Bug#462307: libsoap-lite-perl: Please do not recommend libnet-jabber-perl

gregor herrmann gregor+debian at comodo.priv.at
Wed Jan 23 22:21:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:55:03 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:

> libsoap-lite-perl Recommends libnet-jabber-perl, because it can do
> SOAP over Jabber.  However, this does not seem like a common case that
> almost every user of the package will want; many SOAP services just
> use HTTP, and users of those services will not need
> libnet-jabber-perl.  With many apt frontends now installing recommends
> by default, many people installing libsoap-lite-perl will get
> libnet-jabber-perl even though they have no need for it.  Please
> downgrade this to a Suggests.

Sounds reasonable to me, thanks for spotting the issue.

I've just committed the change to svn.


Cheers,
gregor

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