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

[Julian Taylor]

On 01/20/2012 07:54 PM, Carlos Izquierdo wrote:
> 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 ;-)
> 


I am yet to receive an convincing argument why it is preferable to fix
all python-argparse rdepends instead of just fixing python-argparse
(_not_ python)

I'm planning a little bugfix upload soonish so I might demote it to
recommends in the process if the issue is still not resolved.

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