[Python-modules-team] Bug#653650: Recommends instead of Depends?

[Carlos Izquierdo]

Playing with the popcon website [1] I can't see a clear correlation between ipython and python-argparse installations, so modifying Python's package to solve this (by providing python-argparse) might be a little overkill.

Until the python2.6 userbase drops [2] why don't you just lower python-argparse to a Recommendation instead of a Dependendency? This would still pull python2.6 by default but it would allow removal or no installation (using apt-get --no-install-recommends) for those who want to keep only python2.7 (myself included ;-)

Regards,
Carlos Izquierdo

[1]
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python-ipython
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python-argparse

[2]
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python2.6
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python2.7