On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:57:43AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> 'muffin' isn't allowed into 'testing' because it depends on 'jdk1.1',
> which isn't in Debian.
>
> But 'muffin' is contrib. I thought that 'contrib' packages were allowed
> to depend on packages not in the Debian archive.
>
> Or is the rule that all dependencies of 'contrib' packages must be in
> 'non-free', in 'contrib', or in Debian? I didn't see any such rule.
>
> Perhaps a clarification is in order?
It's a bug in the testing scripts; explicit dependencies on non-Debian
packages in contrib packages aren't handled specially.
Cheers,
aj
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