PGP depends.
I bit the bullet today and decided to install and implement pgp. Searching
the packages files did not turn it up, but I was able to deduce that it
was therefore, in non-free. However the search turned up this information:
mailcrypt - depends: pgp
dchanges - recommends: pgp
elm and w3-el - suggests: pgp
Now, as it happens, I have also been reading the new Policy manual (BTW,
thank you Ian J. for this fine piece of work. It has been long needed and
I for one greatly appreciate your work) and it has some things to say
about this issue. In particular it says that packages that depend on
packages in non-free are to reside in contrib (or non-free if other
restictions apply). This makes it clear that mailcrypt should be in
contrib rather than the distribution proper. It isn't specific about those
packages that recommend or suggest a non-free package, but at least
recommend is strict enough to require special intervention with dselect in
order to install a package without it's recommends. The policy on these
conditions should be made more clear.
Thoughts?
Dwarf
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