Recommends are packages that should be installed to all the features of a package working but that are not mandatory and users are free to uninstall if they really want, that situation probably matches that situation, I'm marking the bug as rejected since that's not a bug but a choice from the maintainer
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Wishlist Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- Gedit package should depend on python-gnome2-desktop https://launchpad.net/bugs/48698 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs