[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#674853: Bug#674853: Bug#674853: winbind should depend on libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind for wheezy

[Luk Claes]

On 05/28/2012 07:48 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:04:37PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> severity 674853 important
>> thanks
>>
>> Quoting Adrian Bunk (bunk at stusta.de):
>>> Package: winbind
>>> Version: 2:3.6.5-3
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>> Common practice in Debian is that when functionality got split out
>>> of one package, that package will depend in the next stable release
>>> on the new packages to avoid breakages on upgrades.
>>
>> Which is why winbind *Recommends* libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind.
>>
>> As we already said ad libitum here....or there....we are not here to
>> rescue people who shoot in one's own foot by not installing
>> Recommends.
> 
> If "not installing Recommends" is considered "shoot in one's own foot",
> doesn't that imply that Recommends should be converted to Depends?
> 
> Either not installing Recommends (which is a *global* setting in Debian) 
> is considered a valid setup through all of Debian, or it is anyway 
> considered broken. In the latter case there would be no reason against 
> changing the Recommends to Depends...
> 
>> So, sorry but no.

On the contrary, if one chooses to not install Recommends one has to
take the consequences of not having everything that is usually needed
installed. How one does that is up to oneself and not to the
distribution at large. So it's actually "not installing Recommends, but
not taking necessay measures to keep things working neither" is
considered "shoot in one's own foot".

Cheers

Luk