Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]
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".
auto-pgp doesn't depend on gpg. It depends on pgp. The changelog doesn't
say this ever changed.
> 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.
>
> noah
This bug against auto-pgp is
http://bugs.debian.org/10179
This is dated 28 May 1997. The fisrt package named gnupg entered
Debian in March 1998, nearly a year later.
When did the non-us archive split and the policy change?
Since pgp is non-us/non-free, I'd say auto-pgp should go in
non-us/contrib.
Peter
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