Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, 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*
Reread what I said, then tell me why auto-pgp going into non-us/main would
be nonsensical at the time of initial packaging. Perhaps auto-pgp's
maintainer was supposed to be a time traveller?
>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.
Nor in fact does it say that contrib is not a 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.
Yes, it must go into either contrib or non-US/main, depending on the
wishes of the packager. Either will do nicely.
>noah
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