<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 09:28 +1000, Robert Collins a écrit : <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 06:30 -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Le mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 19:04 +1000, Robert Collins a écrit : > > Hi Jeff, > > testing the bzrtools package in Dapper, I noticed some quirks.. > > > > It does not depend on 'patch' or 'rsync' or 'pybaz'. bzrtools provides > > extensions to bzr using these external tools. 'pybaz' in particular is > > important because it provides the 'baz-import' functionality needed to > > convert baz archives to bzr. > > It Suggests patch and rsync. AFAIK, bzrtools gracefully degrades if > these are not present. I'll add pybaz. Well, gracefully degrades sure : but will users know to install 'patch' to make the 'bzr patch' command work ? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Actually, these should be "Recommends", not "Suggests": Recommends <DL> <DL> 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. </DL> Almost all archive tools auto-install recommends.  If someone finds themselves in the place where they don't have it and it ought to be there, I suppose I ought to have a custom patch that tells people what package they want. Interesting question - should bzr (or other programs) have a place where I can put text in there for missing tools that's distro specific?  Like "Hi!  You don't seem to have the patch program.  <insert distro text on how to cope here>" Tks, Jeff Bailey </DL> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- * <A HREF="http://www.canonical.com/">Canonical Ltd</A> * <A HREF="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</A> Service and Support * +1 514 691 7221 * Linux for Human Beings. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>