Comment 1 for bug 464434

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Could be recommends at the very best, but even that does not quite fit the situation...
From Debian Policy:
> Recommends
>
> This 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.

Since my systems have k-d-t but not u-d-t I can not get myself to consider recommends a sensible relation. Suggests is the only one left, and it's definition fits the case at hand quite well:

> Suggests
>
> This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others.
> Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related
> to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them
> is perfectly reasonable.

Then again what's the use since suggests does not install udt anyway, which is what is requested. Thoughts?