Hi, I recently created two metapackages (astromatic and eso-pipelines) which were accepted by the ftp-masters yesterday. However, I got a commend that my choice of "Recommends" dependencies is discouraged:
Paul Richards Tagliamonte <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> [1]: > using Recomends and not Depends on the metapackage strikes me as very > awkward. I think I get what you're trying to do (allow folks to remove > one package they don't want, I guess), but I really don't think that's > quite right. What is the rationale behind this? From the policy, I would think that "Recommends" is the perfect dependency here [2]: | Recommends | This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends | field should list packages that would be found together with this one | in all but unusual installations. Why should one use the much stronger "Depends" here? Best regards Ole [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-astro-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20150727/001597.html [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ytzbnewhd5z....@news.ole.ath.cx