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Re: Bug#923507: [proposal] Move long list of recommends from ruby-rails to rails binary package



On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:11:12PM +0500, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Package: src:rails
> version: 2:5.2.2+dfsg-5
> X-debbugs-cc: debian-ruby@lists.debian.org
> 
> Currently ruby-rails pulls a lot of packages via recommends including
> chromium browser. I suggest we move the recommends list from ruby-rails to
> rails binary package.

This sounds like a good idea. It's the same as we did with bundler vs
ruby-bundler some time ago.

> Another option is to move all of this as Depends of a rails-dev binary
> package

If you want this change to apply to buster, adding a new binary package
it this point will make it difficult.

> (or change recomends to depends in rails binary).  This will also help
> us with autopkgtests which currently depends on the deprecated
> restriction needs-recommends.

This sounds useful as well.

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