Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

[Michael S. Gilbert]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:31:44 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Maybe if evince doesn't fail miserably if libspectre1 or other dependencies of
> > the backends aren't found, we could exclude them from Depends and put them on
> > Recommends, or maybe split the backends into separate packages (I don't like
> > this). Downgrading them to recommends sounds better, but we should find a way to
> > autogenerate the recommends, maybe running dpkg-shlibdeps for
> > usr/lib/evince/backends and placing the result in Recommends (not sure if this
> > would be possible).
> 
> Although this would work, we would get gazillions of bug reports saying
> that evince cannot read PS documents.
> 
> No, thanks.

recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too
often.  and when you do get a bug like this, you can easily respond with
"make sure you have all recommends installed."  i don't think decisions
should be made solely on the possibliity an increasing number of bug
reports...

mike