[tryton-debian] Bug#801394: closed by Mathias Behrle <mathiasb at m9s.biz> (Re: Bug#801394: Moving unoconv from Recommends to Suggests)

[Cédric Krier]

On 2015-10-11 15:39, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> as was already discussed in [0] the default installation of tryton-server
> should provide a working setup out of the box. The conversion of documents into
> other formats in tryton-server currently depends on unoconv and will just
> silently fail, when unoconv is not installed.

This is wrong. If unoconv is not installed and the user request a
convertion then there will be an explicit error message but nothing
silent.

> Of course it would be preferable to use less 'bloated' alternatives for the
> document conversion and we will happily change to them or include them as soon
> as they are available with trytond [1].

The discussion is not about any alternative but about the decision to
make unoconv a recommended dependency which sounds purely arbitrary
while there are many other cases where tryton can raise an error because
of missing runtime dependency like configuring a backend which is not
installed. As a maintainer, your reaction is very strange because you
also find unoconv bloated but keep it as recommended while other similar
options are not.


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Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL
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