diff -u gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/changelog gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/changelog
--- gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/changelog
+++ gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+gnome-power-manager (2.28.1-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low
+
+  * Change dependency on notification-daemon to Recommends (LP: #487224)
+
+ -- Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@canonical.com>  Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:22:40 -0500
+
 gnome-power-manager (2.28.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream bug fix release:
diff -u gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control.in gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control.in
--- gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control.in
+++ gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control.in
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         notification-daemon,
          devicekit-power (>= 011),
          dbus-x11
+Recommends: notification-daemon
 Description: power management tool for the GNOME desktop
  GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop 
  that takes care of system or desktop events related to power, and 
diff -u gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control
--- gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control
+++ gnome-power-manager-2.28.1/debian/control
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         notification-daemon,
          devicekit-power (>= 011),
          dbus-x11
+Recommends: notification-daemon
 Description: power management tool for the GNOME desktop
  GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop 
  that takes care of system or desktop events related to power, and