The policies here are a little vague. > because you won't answer all the questions why printing and pc/sc isn't working out of the box, if the recommends are not installed.
But that is true for any recommended dependency in any package. > "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality. This is also vague, especially for a large package like the JRE. I think it should be a little more objective; if there is a graceful degradation then the dependencies should go into recommended. If it's going to hard-crash, then it should be essential. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042366 Title: openjdk-7-jre-headless depends on undesirable packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/1042366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
