Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

From	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?
Date	2024-12-05 23:50 +0100
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Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > In the future, if users can easily filter out locale data, we could
> > decide that that's the easier path to support such users, and that fewer
> > package maintainers need to maintain separate -l10n packages.
>
> The future is 14 years old. https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/

I'm aware, and that was the feature I was talking about in this thread.
The point was that that isn't *guaranteed* to work, by Policy, hence the
Policy proposal to say that packages should work with those files
removed.

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  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? sre4ever@free.fr - 2024-12-05 17:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 18:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 19:30 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:10 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 22:40 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:50 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> - 2024-12-05 23:20 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 23:50 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2024-12-06 07:30 +0100
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        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2024-12-06 13:40 +0100
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