On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM Woody Suwalski <terraluna...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have found that dependencies of the Gimp package are incorrect - it > depends on > librsvg2, but it should have depended on librsvg2-common, which would have > pulled in librsvg2 as well.
librsvg2-2 Recommends librsvg2-common. Please don't disable installing Recommends on your system by default since it's um, not recommended. Most package maintainers don't run Debian without Recommends. Many features on your system will be broken if you do. The more people that disable Recommends by default, the more incentive there is for package maintainers to make all dependencies Depends so that they can ensure things work properly for everyone. I encourage you to read what Debian Policy §7.2 has to say about Recommends. Debian says your system is "unusual" if it doesn't install Recommends by default. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends Anyway, I plan to add your suggested Depends in my next upload of gimp which will probably happen in a few days. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
