[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#486382: Bug#486382: Bug#486382: libgpod3: should not recommend libgpod-common

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:20:02PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> * Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> [2008-06-15 20:08]:
> > Package: libgpod
> > Version: 0.6.0-5
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > It seems to me that the dependency on libgpod-common does not satisfy the 
> > policy requirement for Recommends:
> >    This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. 
> > 
> >    The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> >    with this one in all but unusual installations.
> [...] 
> Agreed, I put this into Suggests instead.

After some thinking about that I disagree.
While some of the contents of libgpod-common clearly not belong in it
(documentation and examples, which I will move to a -doc package), I
think the package itself still satisfies the Recommends definition
given above.

I think we should not consider whether they should found together in
all installations but in all actually used installations. The fact
that most installations of libgpod are probably unused is not our
fault, but the fault of packages like rhythmbox and amarok which do
not allow people to select the plugins they really need.

Together with the fact that libgpod-common is a very small package
with only a small dependency over what you get with libgpod anyway,
I don't think it should be moved to Suggests.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>
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