Bug#574003: alacarte recommends gnome-panel, should be suggests or not at all

[Robert McCathie]

Package: alacarte
Version: 0.12.4-2
Severity: wishlist

Considering alacarte works for any fd.o compliant DE/menu system, the large amount of dependencies of gnome-panel and the default configuration of installing recommended packages, I don't see why gnome-panel is recommended. Were I not the type to more carefully consider the dependencies of a package i'm about to install, I would have ended up with another WM (metacity), file manager (nautilus), a DVD/CD writing app (brasero) and a bunch of libs on my system (basically half of Gnome) when all I was and wanted to be installing was a GUI menu editor that would affect the menus on XFCE4-Panel/LXPanel.

This is my first ever suggestion/bug report and I'd still consider my general Debian/Linux skill level to be intermediate at best. If I've missed something or this is the wrong way to suggest such a change, apologies in advance.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alacarte depends on:
ii  gnome-menus                2.28.0.1-3+b1 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  python                     2.5.4-9       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gmenu               2.28.0.1-3+b1 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  python-gobject             2.20.0-1+b1   Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                2.16.0-2      Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support             1.0.6.1       automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages alacarte recommends:
pn  gnome-panel                   <none>     (no description available)

alacarte suggests no packages.

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