[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#724102: Bug#724102: #724102: pandoc misses recommends on pandoc-data

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting intrigeri (2013-09-25 09:37:00)
> Charles Plessy wrote (25 Sep 2013 05:44:33 GMT) :
> > For the purpose of building manpages with pandoc, the solution is 
> > either to build-depend on pandoc-data, or to make pandoc depend 
> > instead of recommend pandoc-data.
> 
> > Let me know which solution you prefer.
> 
> As the maintainer of a package that is now FTBFS'ing due to the pandoc 
> package split, I don't care much: I can easily upload fixed packages 
> with the additional build-dep.
> 
> As a pandoc user, I wonder what pandoc is useful for without its 
> default set of templates (shipped in the -data package), that are 
> needed AFAIK for a huge majority of usecases, so I would strongly 
> prefer to see a depends here instead of a recommends.

Hmm.  Only use cases I have involve use of some kind of local fork of 
pandoc-data - and that doesn't really count, now that I think of it.

I have now changed package "pandoc" to depend on "pandoc-data", in git.


 - Jonas

P.S. It still holds true that when there _are_ use cases - even when few 
of them - the proper relation is recommends rather than depends.

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