[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] libdbus-1-3: Change "recommand" dbus to "suggest"

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Alexandre Alapetite wrote:
> Package: libdbus-1-3
> Version: 1.2.14-2 (unstable)
> 
> I think libdbus should "suggest" but not "recommend" dbus.
> 
> I am actually on Ubuntu server, but I think this report is best at
> Debian level.
> 
> My use-case is the installation of VideoLAN VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> 
> I have install VLC-nox (VLC without GUI aimed for a server) with
> recommended packages (default behaviour), and I ended up with
> unnecessary packages (dbus, dbus-x11, consolekit) causing many errors.

What errors?

> I believe dbus and consolekit should not have been installed for
> VLC-nox.

FWIW, dbus in Debian (unstable) does not longer recommend dbus-x11, so it
shouldn't be installed by default

> 
> Here is the dependency chain:
> 
> vlc-nox --(depends on)--> libdbus --(recommends)--> dbus --(depends
> on)--> consolekit

This is not the case for Debian. The Debian dbus package does not depend on
consolekit.

Anyways, any application linking against libdbus usually wants a working D-Bus
stack (otherwise it wouldn't use D-Bus in the first place). One could argue,
that each such application should have a direct Depends on dbus.

The Recommends in libdbus is a sensible default, because that is what you
usually want, and I don't think we want to change that.
Thanks to being a recommends, you have the option to, to choose not to install
dbus, if you know what you are doing.

Thanks,
Michael

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