Universe Recommends for packages in main

[Kees Cook]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:48:09PM -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:
> As noted during the server team meeting, starting from Intrepid apt
> installs Recommends by default. However if packages are not available it
> won't fail. 
> 
> Can packages in main recommend packages in universe ? If not, should the
> recommends has a MIR written for in order to get promoted to main or
> should they be dropped to suggests ?

Yeah, AFAIK this is fine.  For example, "inkscape" has a whole set of
Recommends that are in universe.  I don't think there is any need to MIR
them.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team