Bug#554677: wishlist: correct depends / recommends for packages

Alon Horn salonh at t2.technion.ac.il
Thu Nov 5 21:45:45 UTC 2009


Package: eclipse
Severity: wishlist

hi,
when installing eclipse-platform, eclipse is pulled in by default because 
eclipse-platform reccomends eclipse-jdt that recommends eclipse.
it can be removed of caurse, but is not what one might expect when installing
"only the eclipse platform".
also, there is a strict depends on openjdk-6-jre, although there's also a 
dependancy on default-jre, so it's installed even if another jre is already installed.

regards,
alon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
pn  eclipse-jdt                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  eclipse-pde                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  eclipse-source                <none>     (no description available)
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zenity                        2.28.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages eclipse recommends:
pn  eclipse-gcj                   <none>     (no description available)

eclipse suggests no packages.
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