Bug#830683: Missing dependency on module-udev?

bugs-debian at antipoul.fr bugs-debian at antipoul.fr
Thu Jul 14 12:56:13 UTC 2016


Le 14/07/2016 à 13:51, Scott Leggett a écrit :
>
> If a package really does recommend other packages which are useless, you
> should file a bug on that package, not just start blindly using
> --no-install-recommends everywhere.
It is a never ending debate. If installing recommended packages is the
default, then it is more like a dependency, since the package will get
installed anyway. That's why APT::Install-Recommends "false" is in my
apt.conf. When I install a package, I read the summary, and decide by
myself to install or not some or all recommended packages. There should
be an "ask" value by the way.
However, when a builtin code is moved to a recommended package, it can
broke some systems. So the changelog should clearly mentionned that the
split is done in a recommended package, because apt does not do that.

> The relationship between pulseaudio and pulseaudio-module-udev matches
> the Policy description of the Recommends field.
I totally trust you on this point. However, the arguable issue we have
here is when a new recommended package is created with some previously
builtin features.

Adrien



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