Re: Proposal - Deferment of Changes from GR 2004-003
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:28:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:
> >>
> >> > That doesn't matter. To date, the policy has always been that a package
> >> > must go in contrib if it has a dependency on something in non-free
> >> > which has no *current* free implementation.
> >>
> >> Yes, that's right, but this refers to dependencies in the formal
> >> sense, if I am not mistaken.
> >
> > You are mistaken. It also applies if a package needs a piece of software
> > which isn't distributable by Debian, not even in non-free (for a
> > concrete example, see the java packages that can't be compiled by free
> > compilers)
>
> But it doesn't apply if only *part of* a package needs non-free software.
Correct. Specifically, it only applies to "Depends" and "Recommends"
relationships, not to "Suggests" (real relationships, or what the right
relationship would be in case the dependency isn't even part of Debian).
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