Synaptic should recommend scrollkeeper, but not depend on it
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| synaptic (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: synaptic
Synaptic works fine without scrollkeeper, but now it depends on it :(
I think, Synaptic should recommend scrollkeeper, but not depend on it - now, when you install synaptic you also get a lot of unneeded packages - scrollkeeper, docbook-xml, libscrollkeeper0, libxslt1.1, scrollkeeper, sgml-data, all these package are needed only for scrollkeeper.
According to the Debian Policy Manual ( http://
Recommends:
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.
| Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote | #1 |
| Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
| Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| status: | Rejected → Confirmed |
| Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote | #4 |
Btw, help (F1) in synaptic works fine even if scrollkeeper isn't installed - when I choose Help->Contents (F1) I get firefox window, which displaying file://
So, another way to not force people to install unneeded scrollkeeper with it's dependancies (docbook-xml, libscrollkeeper0, libxslt1.1, scrollkeeper, sgml-data) would be depend or recommend
www-browser | scrollkeeper