[Pkg-julia-devel] Dependency on git

[Viral Shah]

On 23-Nov-2013, at 5:35 pm, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:

> Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 à 16:49 +0530, Viral Shah a écrit :
> 
>> I wonder if git should be a required dependency for the julia package, rather than a suggested dependency. Given that one has to use packages even for basic stuff such as graphics in julia, or to get IJulia working, do you think we should make git required dependency?
> 
> git is currently a "Recommended" package, which is higher than a
> Suggested package, but lower than a hard Dependency.
> 
> According to the Debian policy:
> 
> “The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> with this one in all but unusual installations.”
> 
> I think this pretty much match the requirement for git, since Julia will
> typically be used with git, but can still be useful without.
> 
> Concretely, this means that it will be installed by default on all
> systems, unless the user explicitly requires the contrary.

I do see that it is recommended and not suggested. As long as it gets installed by default, that is good enough. Sorry for the noise.

-viral