removing recommended packages from source packages

[John Vivirito]

On 01/12/10 12:36, John Vivirito wrote:
> hi I was doing some installs and i found that some source
> packages have recommends that we do not supply in archives and
> some that have no installation candidate. One example is
> firmware-linux and i cant find the source package that
> recommended it. Also if we provide recommend packages that are
> not in archives we are telling users " we do not have this
> package but feel free to get it from somewhere else"
> AFAIK we do not support packages found outside of our archives.
> 
> Now if this is left overs from Debian's packages i think we
> should either package the recommends or remove them from
> source. The one way i know how to find out source packages is
> to look while packaging/updating the packages, or maybe have a
> patch that searches and removes them.
> If someone knows a better way or a way to make a patch or add
> it in the rules file. I would go with a patch only because
> during merges we can keep them intact and not have to redo it
> for every merge.
> I do not have time for Lucid to look into this much further so
> if someone has any ideas or can draft up a patch please let me
> know.
> 
Sorry i had typo in address first time but here is the full post.

also i reported a bug on this it is bug #506528
here is the link:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/506528

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