Subject: Should recommend (not depend) on cl-swank
From: "Trent W. Buck" <[email-masked]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:41:15 +1100

Package: slime
Version: 1:20080223-2
Severity: normal

According to Debian policy 3.7.3.0 §7.2:

| [Recommends] declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
| The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
| together with this one in all but unusual installations.

slime should either Recommend or Suggest cl-swank, *NOT* Depend on it,
because M-x slime connect RET allows slime to use the swank of another
host.

This is like X clients not depending on an X server, because you can
run the X client and server on separate hosts (i.e. a thin client).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash