It's been a while since -devel has heard anything about DEP-18¹, which
(Back in August or so) encouraged a large healthy discussion here, and
got some coverage on LWN².
Is there any news? Where are we at with this (pre-)³proposal?
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https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/raw/798bfa5a1e160
Hello, and thanks for your time.
I've been a Debian user and contributor for a while, and have noticed a
rather frustrating issue that I'm interested in potentially
contributing code to fix. The issue is what I call "Recommended bloat",
which in short is what happens when you install a package wit
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Horigan
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name: amidiminder
Version : 0.70.1
Upstream Contact: Mark Lentczner
* URL : https://github.com/mzero/amidiminder
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C++
Hi,
Quoting Aaron Rainbolt (2024-11-06 00:35:59)
> According to the Debian Policy Manual, section 7.2, the Recommends field in
> Debian packages "declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The
> Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this
> one in all but unu
Partially top-posting because there are some assumptions here that need
cleared up.
Hi Johannes, and thanks for your feedback. I would like to point out
that I explicitly said in the very start of my email, that this was
something I was "interested in potentially contributing code to fix." I
see t
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