[Pkg-puppet-devel] Drop puppetmaster recommends to suggests

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Micah,

Excerpts from micah anderson's message of Wed Aug 25 12:36:22 -0400 2010:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:33:43 -0400, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've merged almost all changes made to the Ubuntu puppet package into
> > the Debian master git branch. 
> > 
> > The last remaining diff between Ubuntu and Debian is puppetmaster
> > recommends (rails, rdoc, libldap-ruby1.8) are suggestion in Ubuntu.
> > Given that recommends are installed by default, puppet being in main in
> > Ubuntu would pull rails, rdoc and libldap-ruby1.8 in main as well. We'd
> > rather avoid having to pull these in main so they're moved to suggests
> > in Ubuntu.
> > 
> > So do you think that rails, rdoc and libldap-rub1.8 could be moved to
> > suggests for the puppetmaster package in Debian?
> 
> I think that is fine. I'm actually not sure I understand why rails is in
> there at all, but perhaps I'm forgetting something?
> 

IIUC stored config uses activerecord from rails to access the backend
database. It may be worth checking if suggesting/recommending
libactiverecord-ruby instead of rails would actually be enough.

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Mathias Gug
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