On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> 
> > Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > 
> > > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported
> > > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0.
>  
> Lawrence, you probably mean "package in stable depends on package in
> non-free." While this is not officially treated as a bug in debian, it
> will probably appear as one to most users faced with a blocking dselect.

This is MOST CERTAINLY officially treated as a bug!

Packages that depend on non-free packages are defined in the policy manual
to belong in contrib.

Luck,

Dwarf
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