[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#723022: Bug#723022: [pandoc] package split with only Recommends: causes FTBFS on other packages

[Timo Weingärtner]

Hi,

On Sun, 2013-09-15 16:30:32 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Timo Weingärtner (2013-09-15 15:39:11)
> 
> > pandoc only Recommends: pandoc-data, so packages Build-Depending on
> > pandoc for e.g. manpage generation will FTBFS.
> 
> > Please change the Recommends: into a Depends:
> Pandoc is usable without those datafiles, for some special uses.
> 
> I believe the proper thing to do is for such packages to build-depend
> also on pandoc-data.

Another way of doing it is to have pandoc depending on pandoc-core and pandoc-
data.

That would keep packages building and allow people to use either part if they 
know they really only need that part.


Greetings
Timo
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