[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#826680: Bug#826680: Bug#826680: network-manager: please move isc-dhcp-client from Depends: to Recommends:

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.06.2016 um 00:27 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> Users which turn off Recommends on an already-installed system will
> already have isc-dhcp-client installed, and won't end up with no network
> connection upon upgrade even if the internal dhcp client *doesn't* work
> on their local network.  And users who are doing a fresh install while
> forcing --no-install-recommends on an unusually-broken network might
> need to either drop --no-install-recommends, or add isc-dhcp-client to
> their configuration explicitly.
> 

The problem here is that turning the depends into a recommends could
lead to isc-dhcp-client to be uninstalled on upgrades.
I'd have to verify that, but if the package was marked as auto-installed
(which it typically is), I will be uninstalled by "apt autoremove" or
aptitude upgrade. This would be very undesirable.


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