[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#597623: lyx: Far too many recommends

[Jason Heeris]

Package: lyx
Severity: minor

The lyx package has far too many recommends, most of which are completely
unnecessary or tangential to the package itself, and would be better listed as
suggested packages.

For example, it recommends FIVE different PDF viewers, including both evince
AND evince-gtk.

The policy manual states:

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

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash