Re: Bug#207932: Consequences of moving Emacs Manuals to non-free
Selon Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>:
> The release team has published a file which lists the release policy for
> etch on <http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt>. This file states
>
> Packages in main cannot require any software outside of main
> for execution or compilation.
> "Recommends:" lines do not count as requirements.
>
> Thus, it seems that the emacs21 packages _can_ recommend the non-free
> documentation in etch. It is still a policy violation, but not a serious
> one; see bug #360610 for a similar issue.
It's a dead horse.
--
Jérôme Marant
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