[DRE-maint] Bug#819854: [Letsencrypt-devel] Bug#819854: wouldn't Recommends: be better?

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2016, ഏപ്രിൽ 4 3:55:41 AM IST, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>> > we can make letsencrypt optional.
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>Huh? Now that's a strange request.

How is it strange? How is it not different from dbconfig-no-thanks?

To me it solves the same problem. dbconfig does database configuration, and letsencrypt does ssl configuration. If you don't want it, just install dbconfig-no-thanks or letsencrypt-no-thanks.

If it is just in Recommends, you have to disable recommends for each package that uses letsencrypt. And if you disable recommends for whole system, you lose out on this. I want this as depends but allow people to opt out. dbconfig-no-thanks was a perfect solution and strongly feel, letsencrypt fits the same role.

>> I guess you should change Depends: to Recommends: then.
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>Definitely.
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>Hence reassigning.

This is already done in gitlab. If you don't think this is a good idea, you may close this bug.