This is stupid. Empathy depends on a settings backend, so it should obviously depend on one, not recommend. In debian/control, you can write the dependency list like (libdconf0 | libgconf2-4) or whatever the right packages are.
Assuming that packages marked as Recommends will always be installed is a pretty naïve assumption on the packager's part. Not everyone that installs software conforms to their narrow world-view. I thought Ubuntu was about making a Linux distro for human beings. Well, guess what — human beings are diverse. They have diverse systems, with diverse settings. Not everyone has Recommended packages installed by default. Not everyone magically knows that a package is part of something if it is removed and no alert is made because it is only a Recommend. Making Empathy work properly only on the default setup and nothing more diverse is simply naïve. It should be a dependency, not recommend. -- Empathy does not remember settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
