On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives > in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They > are asking that tvtime Suggests libdscaler. I thought that the > appropriate thing to do was to have libdscaler Extends tvtime. > My impressions of the spirit of Policy 2.2.1 is that main should > stand alone, and should not recommend any non-free software. Well, that's correct -- and it /doesn't/ recommend any non-free software, it would merely /suggest/ it. :) With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which complements the chosen package. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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