Re: Introducing DoudouLinux

> The maintainer of the package chooses Recommends and Suggest 
> according
> to his best knowledge.  Any user can write a bug report if he thinks 
> the
> choice was not properly / optimal done.  This are the rules - I can 
> not
> honestly believe you are not aware of the second part. :-)

Alright then, sure I knew the rules!

> It does not matter how complicated it might be to find out whether a
> dependency is necessary or not. *If* it is necessary it needs to be
> in the list of dependencies - if not this is a bug.

So I understand any suspect dependency should just be reported to the 
package maintainer. Sounds simple indeed :).

> If a conflicting package is installed on the system you can not 
> install
> the metapackage and the package management program (aptitude, 
> synaptic,
> ...) will warn you about this and ask for advise.

Do you mean we could partly remove dependencies of a meta-package by 
putting it in a broken status?

> Create a login at alioth.debian.org and ask for inclusion in the 
> Debian
> Pure Blends project - this will grant you write access.

Done!

> I'm afraid the current *audience* is that small that you do not need 
> to
> bother about splitting / whatever.  Just go on and do what you 
> consider
> reasonable.

Ooops, we'll see for a larger audience later then.

BTW, what is the standard procedure to have interesting softwares or 
upstream updates packaged in Debian: just create a Debian bug report? We 
are currently using an updated version of gamine and songwrite, and 
we're about to release a CD with TBO, a simple comic creator which is 
developed on Ubuntu.

Cheers,
JM.