Bug#459556: Library recommends applications

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Jan 7 10:38:09 UTC 2008


Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 21:04 +1100, Trent W. Buck a écrit :
> Package: libeel2-2.20
> Version: 2.20.0-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Without explanation, eel2 (2.20.0-3) adds
> 
>     * Recommend app-install-data and synaptic.
> 
> libeel2-2.20 is a library!  Why is it recommending applications?  IMO
> it's perfectly reasonable to have libeel2-2.20 installed for e.g.
> gnome-mount without wanting or needing synaptic and app-install-data,

Certainly. And this is why these are recommends, not depends.

> so these packages SHOULD NOT be recommended by libeel2-2.20.
> 
> Is there a good reason for this change?

The reason is, eel-open-with-dialog now uses app-install-data and
synaptic to install applications able to read a specific MIME type.

Granted, these recommendations could be moved to nautilus, but this
change is not nautilus-specific; that was the whole point in doing it in
libeel.

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