Re: auto-removal and alternative dependencies
Daniel Pocock wrote:
>On 08/12/16 16:59, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> On 2016-12-08 13:08, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:41:38PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/12/16 13:35, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that clearly addresses the case of alternative
>>>> dependencies.
>>
>> It does when one of the alternatives doesn't exist in the archive.
>>
>>>> My packages do not "require" nagios3, although they will work with it
>>>> if the user doesn't have Icinga.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe that clause could be extended to state that packages (may|may
>>>> not) include alternative dependencies that are not in main, as long as
>>>> at least one of the alternatives is in main.
>>>
>>> Not sure what Andrey is supposed to be quoting here, but see
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681419#275
>>> (Conclusion/ruling at the bottom of that post.)
>>
>> Andrey was quoting the section of policy that the TC ruling you mention
>> applies to.
>>
>> Specifically there's no practical difference between
>> "package-in-non-free | package-in-main" and "package-removed-from-debian
>> | package-in-main" so far as acceptable dependencies for packages in
>> main are concerned.
>>
>
> Reading that entire resolution, it concludes:
>
> 6. The Technical Committee resolves that alternative dependencies of
> the form "Depends: package-in-main | package-in-non-free" are
> permissible in main, and do not constitute a violation of the
> policy clause cited in point 1.
>
> 7. We nevertheless recommend that packages in main consider carefully
> whether this might cause the inadvertent installation of non-free
> packages due to conflicts, especially those with usage
> restrictions.
>
> so I think that is suggesting my packages (ganglia-nagios-bridge and
> syslog-nagios-bridge) can potentially continue to include nagios3 as a
> permitted dependency as long as they also have at least one alternative
> dependency (icinga) that is in main.
You can have nagios3 as an alternative, but not as the first
alternative.
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