Bug#896116: games-minesweeper: Should depend on at least one game

[Markus Koschany]

Am 19.04.2018 um 19:02 schrieb Celelibi:
> Package: games-minesweeper
> Version: 2.2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> If the goal of this package is to install mineweeper games, it should
> depends on them, not just list them as recommended.
> 
> Alternatively, it could depend on a disjunction of the mineweeper games,
> so that at least one get installed.

This is intentional because games-minesweeper is a metapackage. If it
depended on those games you would not be able to remove single games
from your system anymore, all games of a certain metapackage would be
removed. In addition some metapackages would become uninstallable on
some architectures if the dependencies could not be satisfied.

The current Recommends mechanism avoids all that. I don't consider this
to be a bug.

Markus

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