Universe Recommends for packages in main

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:45:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > OOo 1.x filters
> > ---------------
> > openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
> 
> I would expect that this is a relatively uncommon requirement nowadays.

On further reflection, I think I agree.  It's been longer than I thought
since we shipped 1.x (pre-Dapper).

Ideally, users who have upgraded from a release which shipped 1.x should
receive this package, while others wouldn't.  Failing that, I think Suggests
is probably OK.0

> It's "perfectly reasonable" to install OpenOffice.org without support
> for importing 1.x documents and without support for LaTeX output,
> although those features "enhance its usefulness". I definitely don't
> think they meet the criterion of "all but unusual installations".
> 
> As I said, I think Java is on the boundary between those two
> definitions, but seeing as the "usual" installation of Ubuntu is what
> you get from a CD and we have been managing to cope so far, I think
> there's a case that installing OOo without Java is "perfectly
> reasonable".

I thought we had included the oo.o Java bits until recently, and they were
dropped in error.

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 - mdz