Re: Fwd: [Pkg-octave-devel] Popcon stats for the DOG packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> writes:

> For Debian, Sébastien decided otherwise and made io dependent on octave-java -
> very good, that's the OSS principle at work.

Just to clarify: for the Debian package, I did not use a "Depends"
relationship but a "Recommends" one: this means that java is
automatically installed by default when you install io; but you can
still install io without java if you ask so, contrary to a "Depends"
which always enforces the dependency.

The lower dependency level would have been a "Suggests" (java would not
have been automatically installed with io), but I chose "Recommends"
because in my opinion it reflects the fact that the package usefulness
is significantly lowered without java.

The point is that Debian has more types of relationships that the octave
pkg system. So I had to make a decision on how to translate the
"Suggests" of the octave pkg system into the Debian system.

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Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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