[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1083235: Bug#1083235: alacritty: Missing dependency for alacritty

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 07:43:27PM +0100, NoisyCoil wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Setting aside option 2 as it seems too involved for this situation, it seems
> to me that option 1 goes explicitly against policy: the existence of this
> bug proves the expectation is not fulfilled in practice, and packages must
> depend on other packages needed for them to work properly. Recommends works
> as long as the dependency is optional, which in this case it is not if one
> uses x11.

AFAIK this is exactly the point of Recommends. Not all situations 
require the package, and the user must change the defaults to not 
get the dependency installed.

IMO there is no bug to be fixed here.

Chris