Re: Relation with non-existing packages
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Would adding something like the following to section 2.3 be enough?
>
> Packages may have a relation with other packages through Pre-depends,
> Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts and Replaces. If a package
> declares such a releation to another package, that other package has
> to exist in one of the sections of the same release. It can either be
> a real package, a virtual package provided by another package or a
> virtual package from the list of virtual packages.
>
> I'm not too happy about the wording though.
I disagree with this proposal. Packages in contrib and non-free
should be able to depend on packages that we can't or won't distribute
for whatever reason.
Richard Braakman
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