[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#479341: Bug#479341: dbus: Turn X recommends to suggests

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sun May 4 21:39:26 UTC 2008


severity 479341 wishlist
thanks

Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> dbus package recommends dbus-x11. However many server installations need to have
> dbus anyway, so I suggest to change Recommends to Suggests here (especially
> given the fact APT installs Recommends by default now).
> 
> Quoting the policy: "The Recommends field should list packages that would be
> found together with this one in all but unusual installations" and X11-less
> server is quite usual configuration.

We chose Recommends, because we want dbus-x11 to be installed by 
default, but to give the user the option (as in your case) to not 
install dbus-x11 (and it's X dependencies). Suggests is too weak imho.


Cheers,
Michael
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