Mirco Bauer schrieb:
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 11:06 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> The package should depend on beagle (and not recommend it), as it's
>> unusable/non-working without an installed beagle package. It should also
>> depend on icedove for the same reasons.
>>
>> The package "beagle" should have a Suggests icedove-beagle.
> 
> No executable nor library in the package is using beagle or icedove,
> thus icedove-beagle doesn't require beagle nor icedove, but
> icedove loads the extension instead.

I don't agree on this interpretation. Just take a look at other
icedove/iceweasel plugins. I checked a few of them and they all have a
Depends on icedove/iceweasel.

> beagle should indeed suggest icedove-beagle, as it enhances the
> functionality of the beagle software.

There is also an "Enhances" keyword. Unfortunately none of the package
management tools make use of it.

Cheers,
Michael

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