Hi, The Debian Technical Committee is currently in the process of deciding how packages will be allowed to annotate alternative dependencies/recommendations/suggestions on non-free packages. For example, right now "Depends: foo-free | foo-nonfree" is allowable. One of the potential choices is disallowing that, and only allowing virtual package entries in such cases so that you would have "Depends: foo-virtual" and foo-free and foo-nonfree provide foo-virtual.
Since we're trying to improve collaboration with the FSF, and since this matter is likely of fundamental interest to the FSF, I was wondering if one of the FSF representatives would like to weigh in on that discussion? Hopefully your external viewpoint will help the committee make the best, well-rounded decision. The bug report is here: http://bugs.debian.org/681419 Best wishes, Mike _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss