[Cupt-devel] Bug#681508: cupt: please clarify how Recommends are handled

[Jonathan Nieder]

Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.7
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Gergely Nagy wrote[1]:

> Does Recommends guarantee that the platform will stay intact, unless I
> explicitly remove a recommended package? No?

I have no idea whether it does (in cupt) or not, so please document it.

Recommends means that the package is needed in all but unusual
installations.  If you have not declared by explicitly removing the
package that yours is an unusual installation, a normal upgrade should
not allow this necessary package to be removed.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00340.html