Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Do we know what proportion of the existing references out of main into > non-free/contrib could be done this way ?
I'm not sure; we'd have to check. However, it seems like it should handle all of them except any that would need a versioned dependency. > That would at least solve the problem where we put > Recommends: ... | bar-nonfree ... > in the metadata, which I think is arguably a problem in itself. It's > difficult to argue that that doesn't constitute a recommendation of > bar-nonfree. > Would we also want to do something to avoid the package managers > complaining about nonexistent virtual packages ? I guess they are > already happy to ignore references to unprovided virtual packages, and > nonexistent packages in general, since they are a common approach for > transitions and often remain (beneficially) in the dependencies for > years afterwards. The only dependencies on non-free from main right now are in the form of an alternative between a free package and a non-free package (or are serious bugs), I believe. So I don't think any of the virtual packages would be non-existent, since the free package would always provide that virtual package, no? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87liiibauf....@windlord.stanford.edu