Bug#473304: libhtml-wikiconverter-perl and friends

[Rene Mayorga]

severity 473304 normal
thanks

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:11:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:12:50AM -0400, Rene Mayorga wrote:
> >On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:02:25AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> >Actually I missed that html2wiki binary pokes the user about this 
> >change (yes, I was one despite user too :))
> >So I'm only adding a note to HTML::WikiConverter POD noting this 
> >change. Also I add the debian/NEWS file
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> 
> >>   2) Have main module recommend formerly included submodules
> >
> >Just for made this point clear, you suggest a Recommend directly to all 
> >formerly submodules or you suggest keeping the Recommends to the 
> >virtual packages provides but the submodules?
> 
> Both. They serve different purpose.
> 
> Recommending virtual package is to indicate that the main module is 
> worthless standalone (but the user might have written her own custom 
> submodule or installed submodules manually, so depending is too strong.
> 
> Recommending formerly included packages is for backwards compatibility.  
> It might be better depending on them, but I believe recommends is strong 
> enough (with the added bonus that others _can_ avoid them if they wish).

Ok, so we will _Recommends_  the virtual-package
libhtml-wikiconverter-dialect provided by the formerly submodules
and also _Recommends_ the strictly package name for that submodules

IMHO this is enough and good for me.

(also I think that this bug is not grave, so I downgrading it to normal)

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