Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 12:26 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:15 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > >> Hi Ross, > >> > >>> This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages > >>> (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" >

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-19 Thread Bart Samwel
Ross Boylan wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:15 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: Hi Ross, This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" rather than "depends" relations? No, not really. The trouble is that this packa

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:15 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > Hi Ross, > > > This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages > > (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" > > rather than "depends" relations? > > No, not really. The trouble is that this package

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-18 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Ross, This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" rather than "depends" relations? No, not really. The trouble is that this package is installed by default on laptops, and that it's supposed to make la

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: acpi-support Version: 0.95-2 Severity: minor This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" rather than "depends" relations? I'm also puzzled by the presence of xbase-clients, and wonder if laptop-detec