Dear Maintainer,

synaptic ships /etc/apt.conf.d/99synaptic which sets
APT::Install-Recommends to true globally for all APT based applications.

IMHO no application should be so arrogant to change that value globally
as its default is "true" anyway and if it has been changed, it has been
changed by the local administrator deliberately and should not be
overriden by any application, especially not globally.

If it's needed for synaptic's well-behaving (which I doubt),
it should set that value internally, but not globally.

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Hi there,

This happens in wheezy as well, marked.

Actually, the above file is not present in the package itself, but it is
generated the first time synaptic is started, as etckeeper told me.
[...]

Fully, agree.

Please note that IMHO this bug is at least important, if not more.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Hi Luca,

Luca Capello wrote:

Thanks for the investigation and details.

Actually I noticed it because of tracking /etc/apt/ in git, too. (I
likely wouldn't have noticed it on those machines where I use
etckeeper as it does the commits automaticallt by default. :-)

Thanks for the comment. I was unsure about the real severity (I veered
between minor and important) and hence removed the explicit "Severity:
normal" deliberately because of that.

Since there's now a second opinion, I've now set the severity to
important.

		Regards, Axel