Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>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.
GPG IS NOT IN MAIN! It's in Non-US/main!
>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
>
>
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