Re: recommends/suggests patch

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 06:51:46PM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:19:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > So if you have a package in main that recommends a non-free package,
> > If I understand correctly, in this case this very package from would go to
> > contrib, would it not?
> 
> No, packages in main cannot _depend_ on non-main packages. They can
> however suggest and recommend them.

Incorrect.  Policy section 2.1.2 is explicit about this:

     In addition, the packages in "main"
        * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or
          execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or
          "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package),

Richard Braakman