Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

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Subject: Re: What constitutes a package for Policy
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:45:17 +0100
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* Steve Langasek (vorlon@netexpress.net) [040204 17:25]:
> Unless Policy has changed since the last time I looked, I understood
> that the consensus was that both Depends: and Recommends: must be
> satisfiable within main, due to the behavior of certain packaging
> front-ends which will pull in recommended packages by default.

I understood the same, and also understood that Suggests should be
handled via a Enhances-entry at the non-free package.


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Andi
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- What constitutes a package for Policy
  - From: Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>
- Re: What constitutes a package for Policy
  - From: Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
- Re: What constitutes a package for Policy
  - From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>

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