On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:19:23PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > I have heared that the split of mtr in two packages, one with the > graphical frontend and one without is against point 5.8 of the policy. Not if he makes mtr-tiny standard, which he apparently is trying to do. > The policy speaks only about xfree86-common and xlib6g. But the graphical > frontend for mtr also needs glib and gtk. The GTK+ library itself depends on xlib6g. Thus graphical mtr has a de-facto/transitive dependency on xlib6g whether it declares one or not. > So, my question is, is this really against the policy? If the override file cabal declines his request to make mtr-tiny standard, yes. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify their Debian GNU/Linux | wrong doings, and speech only to conceal branden@debian.org | their thoughts. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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