Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 xen-tools: should recommend e2fsprogs
Hi Andreas and Helmut.
Helmut: Thanks for the bug report!
Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Control: severity -1 minor
I don't see why a missing package relation should be minor. Until
e2fsprogs isn't non-essential, it's at least not "serious".
> The ChangeLog mentions these tools added as 'optional', so likely
> a dependency is not the right thing here.
Indeed. It's not necessary in _all_ cases and hence a hard dependency
is too strict.
> Right next to the mkfs.ext* commands we find the reiserfs and xfs
> equivalents, and reiserfsprogs and xfsprogs are listed under
> Suggests relationship.
There's a difference nevertheless: ext3/ext4 are the default file
systems used by xen-tools. So the according tools should be pulled in
by default, too.
> My conclusion is thus that adding e2fsprogs to Suggests seem to be
> the proper fix.
Due to being the default file system, it should be "Recommends".
Regards, Axel
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