Re: Glom for Ubuntu Intrepid

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:58 +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2009, at 07:56, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 21:59 +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> > > Iain Lane wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure if I pushed the fixed version to my PPA, as I was  
> > > > preparing
> > > > for a real upload. I'll make sure to fix it on the PPA tonight.  
> > > > Sorry
> > > > for not receiving these mails before! I only found out about the  
> > > > issue
> > > > from reading the changelog on SVN, whoops.
> > > >
> > > > For completeness, there was a rogue line in the rule file to build  
> > > > the
> > > > .deb which read something like `rm -r /path/to/examples'. I don't  
> > > > know
> > > > why the original packager put it there (FHS/Debian policy compliance
> > > > maybe? On Debian examples are supposed to be installed in
> > > > /usr/share/doc/package/examples, but they generally aren't directly
> > > > referenced by the program. Perhaps calling these "templates" would  
> > > > be
> > > > better?), but I removed it and now they appear.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Iain
> > >
> > > I uploaded ~ppa10 a little while ago. The examples and  
> > > documentation are
> > > now split out into a separate glom-doc package,
> >
> > That's not really acceptable to me. The templates/examples are an
> > important part of Glom and should always be present.
>
> Quoting policy:
>
> "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. "

OK. I guess the definition changed or it was just deeply wrong of older
Debian/Ubuntu versions to not install recommended stuff.

Which version of Ubuntu does the right thing? Intrepid or just Jaunty?
If Intrepid wouldn't install it then I'd prefer it to be a hard
dependency in Intrepid's package.

Thanks.

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