On 07/23/2018 04:45 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +patch > > Hello, > > Seeking seconds: > > diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst > index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst > @@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ The meaning of the five dependency fields is as follows: > The ``Recommends`` field should list packages that would be found > together with this one in all but unusual installations. > > + It is not a bug if some things in the package do not work properly > + because the user has not installed packages listed in > + ``Recommends``. > + > ``Suggests`` > This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one > or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the >
I'm not convinced this is an improvement FWIW. This seems to discount plausibly valid bugs out of hand without defining acceptable failure modes. Cheers, Julien
