Re: Policy for adding DEPENDS

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:58:36PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:43:11PM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > What's the policy for adding a DEPENDS to a package?
> > 
> > I spent the better half of yesterday's working day tracking down why I 
> > couldn't print plain text files with CUPS 2.1 (print/cups) and the filters 
> > (print/cups-filters). It turned out to be a missing font and I ended up 
> > looking up the corresponding Debian packages Depends: lines to find I 
> > needed to install fonts/freefont-ttf.
> > 
> > I was about to file a PR about a missing DEPENDS in print/cups-filters, 
> > but one could argue you can install a different font package, print all 
> > sorts of other formats just fine without the font or only need cups-browsed 
> > (included in the same package) and not care about working filters at all.
> 
> It's always a judgment call. This case sounds like I'd probably add
> it.

While we're at it: there was an old thread which suggested

- rename print/cups print/cups-base
- create print/cups which depends on print/cups-base & print/cups-filters

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Patrick