Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 07:51:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> It seems to me that the gnome maintainers have a philosophical view
> that Network Manager is very strongly part of GNOME, and that they
> feel that this philosophical position can only be properly reflected
> by a hard dependency.  That is, that demoting the dependency to
> Recommends would be failing to properly give effect to the truth that
> N-M is part of GNOME.

To be fair, it seems to me that Joss has provided an additional answer
to the "why recommends?" question in

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2012/09/msg00089.html

For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends
do not behave properly across upgrades".

Cheers.
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