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Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]



On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:49:26PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> > 
> > You have a major hole in this: there were four sections at one time,
> > main, contrib, non-free, and non-US.  Non-US got split into subsections a
> > couple of years ago.  Originally, there was no non-US/main, simply non-US.
> > BTW, IIRC this is when the auto-pgp issue came to a head, thus auto-pgp
> > went into contrib BECAUSE IT DEPENDED ON NON-US.  Not because it depended
> > on non-US/main, non-US/non-free, or even non-US/ask_somebody_who_cares.
> 
> That is absolutely not true.  auto-pgp would have to go in *non-us/main*
> due to its dependency on a package from non-us.  Not contrib.
> non-us/main is part of Debian.  auto-pgp was put in contrib due it's
> dependency on "gpg | pgp".  Nowhere in policy is it stated that packages
> that depend on packages from non-us/main can not be part of Debian.
> 
> Therefore, if we follow this precident, then the printool package that
> is the subject of this thread must also go in contrib.

Egads. This situation with auto-pgp looks all wrong from where I'm sitting.
auto-pgp has dependencies|reccomends that can be *completely* satisfied by
packages in main[|non-US/main] and therefore should be placed into main
[|non-US/main]. The fact that the dependencies can *also* be satisfied by
a package in non-free ought to be beside the point.


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