On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from > > debian/main ? > > How should it handle it?
Well, i would say that recomends and suggests from packages in the debian distribution to packages in non-free are allowed, but not depends, as it currently the case. This is a problem though, since some see this as debian advertizing non-free, or thighly tying this new non-free.org to debian, which some find a hatefull thing. I believe that apt could be patched to only show recomends and suggest that are fullfillable with the current apt sources entry, but i don't feel up to providing such a patch. Like i explained to markus, i would find the forbiding of suggests and recomends from main to non-free not a good thing, as illustrated in the case of non-free documentation, and also in the case of the temporal moving of a part of main which was found to be badly licenced to non-free, while a free alternative is being worked on. > > How will this separate setup handle this ? > > What about conflicts ? > > What do you propose? Only a problem if the above is going to be forbidden. I still think this is a great loss of time, but hey, if you feel like it, all the more power to you :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
