[Parted-maintainers] Bug#276887: libparted1.6-0: can't fulfill the Recommends in sarge

[Andreas Barth]

* Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) [041018 14:30]:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:40:53PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:48:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:54:14PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > The recommends on libreiserfs0.3-0 can't be fulfilled in sarge.

> > > Is that not clear enough ? It is not a dependency nor build-dependency
> > > anymore, and this should most assuredly be enough ? Mmm, maybe i could just as

> > A package management tool can handle Recommends like Depends to help 
> > users (and section 2.2.1. of your policy treats Recommends similar to 
> > Depends and Build-Depends).

> So, a Suggest would be ok then ? 

No. Either drop the relationship in total (and e.g. only document it in
README.Reiserfs), or keep it as recommends. A broken binary relationship
is always a bug, Depends is serious or grave, Recommends is important,
and Suggests is normal or minor. So, either you fix that bug (and drop
that relationship in total), or you don't fix it. (Of course,
downgrading a bug from serious to important might make sense to allow a
package to be in sarge, but at least I don't see the advantages of
downgrading from important to normal.)

(See http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt for that broken
recommends is not RC, but of course nevertheless a bug.)

Cheers,
Andi
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