Hi there! Given that I found this problem for the second time in the last 4 months, I think this is worth a discussion on debian-devel@.
It seems that recently two library packages started to change their Recommends: to common data to a Depends:. This after two bugs were reported by the same person, Josh Triplett (cc:ed, sorry for the spam), who asked for an explanation for the Recommends: (a reason which I find perfectly valid). The two bugs are: <http://bugs.debian.org/599643> <http://bugs.debian.org/599666> When I found out about libm17n-0, I also found out that the change added a circular dependency and thus commented on this new bug why I think a library package should not depend on data packages: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604926#20> And now, while looking again for that bug to be linked here, I found another occurrence of such a situation, reported almost one year ago [1] by Axel Beckert (cc:ed as well, again sorry for the spam): <http://bugs.debian.org/582797> [1] I remember that during one upgrade of emacs-snapshot I was surprised it pulled anthy-common, but then forgot about reporting it... I see these situations as a misuse of Depends: where Recommends: would be perfectly fine, otherwise Recommends: are useless. But given that it seems no one agrees with me, is such a behavior documented somewhere? Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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