Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Adrian Bunk 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.
I fully agree with this interpretation of policy.
Please also note that gs-aladdin most probably Provides: gs, the "real"
reason you need to put something like gs (>= 4.03) | gs-aladdin (>= 4.03)
in your depends line is that versioned provides do not currently work.
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