Bug#649376: gnome: Dependency on totem-mozilla violating Debian-Policy

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 18:15 +0100, Oliver Rompcik a écrit : 
> Josselin Mouette schrieb:
> > Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 13:32 +0100, Oliver Rompcik a écrit :
> >> The dependency of gnome on totem-mozilla violates Debian Policy (3.5),
> >
> > Are you serious?
> 
> Absolutely: "Every package must specify the dependency information about
> other packages that are REQUIRED for the first to work correctly."

Good. Then since gnome is a metapackage, by definition everything it
depends on is required for it to work correctly, since its only feature
is to depend on packages.

> So why not change it recommends: or suggests: ??? Is there at least one
> reason?

METAPACKAGES ARE NOT A SUPERMARKET.

/me goes adding a presubj to meta-gnome3.
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