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Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug

From	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.policy
Subject	Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug
Date	2018-07-23 04:50 +0200
Message-ID	<wez57-1R1-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hello,

Seeking seconds:

diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
index 1eaa422..03f5918 100644
--- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ The meaning of the five dependency fields is as follows:
     The ``Recommends`` field should list packages that would be found
     together with this one in all but unusual installations.

+    It is not a bug if some things in the package do not work properly
+    because the user has not installed packages listed in
+    ``Recommends``.
+
 ``Suggests``
     This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one
     or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-23 04:50 +0200
  Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2018-07-23 08:20 +0200
    Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-23 08:40 +0200
      Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2018-07-23 17:20 +0200
  Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> - 2018-07-23 10:20 +0200
  Bug#685746: Seeking seconds for a patch to deal with remaining issues in this old bug Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-26 02:10 +0200

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