Bug#681419: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib
Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedecker@ugent.be> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:51:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> And this:
>> yagf: Depends: 'cuneiform | tesseract-ocr' [choice 1: cuneiform from non-free]
>> which is also a bug but a less serious one.
> Why is this less serious? When you install yagf (with non-free enabled),
> apt-get installs cuneiform, which is non-free.
It's less serious in that it's possible for the software to work without
non-free packages, which comes closer to satisfying the requirement in
Policy. The trend of opinion in the tech-ctte at the moment, however, is
that it's still a bug if a package in main pulls in a package from
non-free by default when non-free is enabled.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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