Re: Depends: on package in contrib
* Stefan Schwandter (e9925373@student.tuwien.ac.at) wrote :
> Hello,
>
>
> policy says that a package in main must not declare a releationship on a
> package not in main.
>
> I would like to split the snd package into a snd (arch-independent
> files), snd-gtk and snd-dmotif, where snd-dmotif is in contrib. Is it
> legal to declare a Depends: on snd-gtk|snd-dmotif in the snd package?
> Since snd-gtk is in main, I don't see why this shouldn't be possible.
>
> Or should I declare a Depends: on, say, snd-gui and let the
> gui-packages declare a Provides: snd-gui?
>
I think the second suggestion is by far the better. That means you don't
have to depend on a package in contrib, and can add other gui modules later
without having to change the dependencies on snd
Cheers,
-Thom
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