Bug#627159: Not suggest but recommend libio-socket-inet6-perl, add libsocket6-perl

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Fri May 20 09:32:02 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 13:08, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Because there's no way for a package to say "I depend on foo
> only if the system is configured with IPv6" I actually think this
> should be a Depends rather than Recommends, if it breaks without just
> because IPv6 is configured on the system.

It doesn't seem to actually break completely. So I think Recommends is in
order, afterall, the administrator needs to explicitly remove those IPv6
packages to get into a situation where they're not installed.


Thijs





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