[Aptitude-devel] Bug#820452: Bug#820452: Please don't Recommend the HTML manual packages

[Josh Triplett]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:48:16PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Josh Triplett wrote:
> > aptitude Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
> > 
> > Why would all but the most unusual configurations need an HTML version
> > of the manual installed?  aptitude already ships a text version in
> > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README, and includes a menu option inside
> > aptitude to display that.
> 
> Indeed. I never noticed the latter. :-)
> 
> > The HTML version is also available online.
> 
> Yeah, nowadays. Formerly the online versions were nearly always
> out-of-date and confused people.

Ah, makes sense.

> > Suggests seems more appropriate in this case.
> 
> I agree.

Thanks!