On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > For example, a jikes has a Recommends as follows: > > Recommends: jikes-sablevm | jikes-gij | jikes-classpath | jikes-kaffe | jikes-sun > > Now, all of these packages, but jikes-sun, are in main (or will be once > > uploaded). Does jikes satisfy the policy? Does the policy refer to "a > > package" as "jikes-sablevm OR jikes-gij OR ..." > > OR > > does it mean "jikes-sablevm AND jikes-gij AND ... " ? > Point 1 - It's "Recommends". Therefore, it doesn't matter. You can > Recommend *anything*, even stuff that is so non-free that Debian doesn't > distribute it at all (though it would be better to Suggest it unless there > are free alternatives; see point 2). 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. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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