Hello Norbert,
did you had a good time in the mountains? Did you came back safe and
sound?
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sam, 08 Jul 2006, Luk Claes wrote:
>> * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or
>> execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends",
>> or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package),
>
> This is a very strange wording to be honest:
> "must not require a package outside of main for compilation
> or execution"
> versus
> "...Recommends..."
>
> The recommended packages are definitely not necessary for correct
> function ("execution") nor compilation. So why the "Recommends" in the
> above list?
>
> Anyway, what do you suggest? I guess I just wait until the bug solves
> itself by update/fix of the packages I depend on.
ACK. I think Luk did misinterpret this paragraph. It should state that
you do not depend on packages in contrib, non-free or outside the
Debian archive. With his argument you can kick off many packages from
the archive after a dependency is gone.
Regards, Jörg.
--
Prof. in der Mathematikvorlesung zu einem vergessenen \phi in der
Gleichung: "Klein-\phi macht auch Mist."
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