On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:21:13PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: > > A "gs (>= 4.03) | gs-aladdin (>= 4.03)" says that you need one of these > > two packages installed. I read it that the sense of this sentence is in > > the "must not require", and as long as you are able to install the package > > on a system without any non-free or contrib packages installed there's no > > problem. > > Then this should be clarified in policy, as that's not the response that > was given to someone else (I forget the exact situation, but it was exactly > analogous) by Ethan Benson (+ others?) recently. Yes, the problem was with (I believe) auto-pgp. It depended on "gpg | pgp" and had to go in contrib because pgp is non-free. That is despite the fact that it could be installed, having all its dependencies met, using only packages from main. The discussion took place on debian-security maybe a month ago. Perhaps policy needs to address this specific situation, as it's come up a couple of times lately and there seem to be a couple of different points of view regarding the solution. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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