[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#760836: owncloud: should not recommend libreoffice

[David Prévot]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your interest in this Debian package.

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:48:30AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Package: owncloud
> Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: important

> This isn't really very nice on a server for what is optional
> functionality.

Are the thumbnails really an optional functionality? I mean, they are
provided by default, unless there are missing dependencies. Installing
the needed packages to enable this feature seems to match the policy
wording about Recommends (“The Recommends field should list packages
that would be found together with this one in all but unusual
installations.” 7.2).

> I realise this is Recommends, not Depends, and that functionality can be
> disabled. But we foresee this tripping up our engineers in the future,
> and an accidental upgrade installing a raft of things we don't want.

Is this bug actually about “bad” admins that may break the expectations
of “good” admins? Is that the reason why you believe this issue is of
important severity?

> Patch attached, with a slight difference from upstream:
> libreoffice|libreoffice-writer gives users the opportunity to just have
> libreoffice-writer if they wish.

I’m not sure to follow the rationale of suggesting libreoffice-writer as
an alternative (one may install whatever they want if they feel the need
to, independently of what any package may suggest). The people
suggesting libreoffice-writer in the upstream thread have been corrected
more than once, what’s your rationale?

If we are to consider demoting this recommended tool to a suggestion,
why shouldn’t we do the same of the other tools used for thumbnails, as
documented in the README (and the upstream admin documentation pulled in
via owncloud-doc)?

Regards

David
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