Comment 11 for bug 409764

Timo, I fully agree with your assessment and that's why my initial request was to simply downgrade mozvoikko and ooo-voikko to Recommends, but I'm told that all language writing aids packages are automatically built and, as such, either we depend upon something or we don't. As an alternate solution, Arne suggested making it a special case for the language pack installer, which allows defining arbitrary dependencies on a per-language basis.

Arne, am I correct in assuming that you use 'germinate' to seed your package dependencies? If yes, then it should be possible to perform what was initially asked by dividing seeds into Depends and Recommends items. For instance, ubuntu-meta does this rather well.