[openbox] debian testing oddity

[General]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:02:55 +0200
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" <andrej at rep.kiev.ua> wrote:

>     Hello!
> 
> General has written on Sunday, 22 December, at 15:22:
> >On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:46:06 -0500
> >Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> General wrote:
> >> 
> >>   Thank you very much. That's very helpful. I wasn't aware of 'recommends'.
> >>   Sheesh! and I thought I knew what i was doing :)
> >> 
> >> So was that the problem? I don't think debian should be adding gnome-session
> >> to the recommended dependencies for openbox. Many of us run openbox because
> >> we don't want all the bloat of the popular desktops, so sucking in all of
> >> gnome seems rude.
> 
> >Indeed it was. Incidentally that script will no longer work as there is now an
> >option in  synaptic itself pre-checked to treat recommends as dependencies -
> >I've no idea when that was added.
> 
> >I have another machine with a similar setup, and by clearing this, was able to
> >upgrade it without the same problems.
> 
> >I agree that even recommending gnome is daft (let alone gnome3), and to
> >effectively completely reconfigure the desktop without warning is a big NO!
> 
> >Thanks again.
> 
>     That recommended dependency clearly violates Debian Policy 7.2 and
> I've asked maintainer of Openbox in Debian to revert his change ASAP.
> 
>     Thank you.
>     Andriy.

Thanks for following up on this.
The good news is I've learned a bit more about debian :)
I've also learned to be more careful about making assumptions :P 

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