[Bug 122029] Re: adept doesn't honour recommends

[Richard Birnie]

Following a conversation in #kubuntu-devel I tried to test this bug. The
original reporter discovered this while trying to install the maxima
package. It is correct that adept does not honour recommends

 'sudo apt-cache show maxima|grep ^Rec' 
returns:
 Recommends: maxima-share, gv
i.e. maxima-share and gv are recommended packages for maxima. If I try to install maxima through adept then it does not install maxima-share or gv, see attached screenshot. Both apt-get and aptitude honour recommends. For example if I run 'sudo apt-get install maxima' I get the following output

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gnuplot-nox libgd2-noxpm
Suggested packages:
  gnuplot-x11 gnuplot-doc libgd-tools texmacs maxima-doc
Recommended packages:
  maxima-share gv
The following NEW packages will be installed
  gnuplot-nox libgd2-noxpm maxima
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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The recommended packages do get installed.

** Changed in: adept (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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adept doesn't honour recommends
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122029
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