Bug#757305: cyrus-common: should not recommend mail servers

[brian m. carlson]

Package: cyrus-common
Version: 2.4.17+caldav~beta10-1
Severity: minor

cyrus-common Recommends cyrus-imapd | cyrus-pop3d | cyrus-murder |
cyrus-nntpd | cyrus-admin | cyrus-caldav.  Policy §7.2 says:

  The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
  together with this one in all but unusual installations.

I've used the Cyrus clients for testing for several years on numerous
systems.  I'm not at all interested in using Cyrus for mail.  I suspect
I'm not in the minority here, and this dependency means that anyone with
the clients installed will automatically have cyrus-imapd installed
unless they explicitly deselect it.  Considering many people use the
clients on a laptop or desktop, where an IMAP server is not wanted, this
dependency should probably be downgraded to a Suggests.

I particularly don't think having only the clients installed is an
"unusual installation".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cyrus-common depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.113+nmu3
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.191
ii  db-upgrade-util         5.3.0
ii  db-util                 5.3.0
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.53

cyrus-common recommends no packages.

cyrus-common suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

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