Bug#351406: Installation of Recommends:

[Loïc Minier]

clone 351406 -1 -2
retitle -1 Must install Recommends: on install *and* upgrades in the default configuration
retitle -2 Must install Recommends: on install *and* upgrades in the default configuration
reassign -1 synaptic
reassign -2 dselect
stop

        Hi,

 Bug #351406 is one more bug caused by the non-respect of the
 Recommends: field by package managers.  Until the package managers are
 fixed, maintainers are forced to use Depends instead of Recommends.

 I technically consider this to be RC because policy clearly defines how
 important Recommends are, and it's clear how they should be handled,
 however, given the following arguments, I understand that it's not RC,
 and wish for prompt resolution of this problem which renders the
 Recommends: field useless:
 1/ the archive has lived until now with this problem
 2/ the archive is cluttered of incorrect usage of Recommends instead of
    Suggests
 3/ this might not be trivial to implement for the next release

 Concerning synaptic, it's quite possible that the underlying apt-get
 bug is the culprit.  Since apt-get is not considered as an end-user
 package management tool, I'll let the synaptic maintainer either work
 around the problem at the synpatic level or cascade the problem on the
 apt-get package.

   Cheers,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>