[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#541836: Suggests wrong -doc package

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva]

Hi!

Em Dom, 2009-10-18 às 19:13 -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva escreveu:
(...) 
> Em Dom, 2009-10-18 às 21:31 +0200, Joachim Breitner escreveu:
(...) 
> > which name is better? libghc6-*-doc or haskell-doc? Boths have its
> > merits?
> 
> As there 104 packages in libghc6-*-doc format in my count[1], I think we
> should stick with it.
(...)

I just received this lintian warning:

W: libghc6-bytestring-nums-doc: lib-recommends-documentation recommends:
ghc6-doc
N: 
N:    The given package appears to be a library package, but it
recommends a
N:    documentation package. Doing this can pull in unwanted (and often
large)
N:    documentation packages since recommends are installed by default
and
N:    library packages are pulled by applications that use them. Users
usually
N:    only care about the library documentation if they're developing
against
N:    the library, not just using it, so the development package should
N:    recommend the documentation instead. If there is no development
package
N:    (for modules for scripting languages, for example), consider
Suggests
N:    instead of Recommends.
N:    
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N: 

If we're going to stay with libghc6-*-doc packages, we should explain to
lintian maintainers that this is not a library package.

Greetings.


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