Re: Mozilla with Java

[Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Colin Watson]
>> Suggests from main to contrib/non-free is allowed, or else Enhances
>> from contrib/non-free to main.
>
> The phrase in the policy would also allow a conditional recommends or
> depends to packages outside main.  As long as the dependency or
> recommend can be fulfilled with a package in main, it should be fine.
> This is the relevant section from the policy.

This sounds like a reasonable interpretation of the intent of the
policy guide to me, but the policy itself includes a clarification
"thus, the package must not declare a 'Depends', 'Recommends', or
'Build-Depends' relationship on a non-main package".

Perhaps that sentence needs to be changed to something like "the
package must not declare a 'Depends', 'Recommends', or 'Build-Depends'
relationship on a non-main package unless a main package alternative
is also available" (or something similar)?