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Re: Depends: on package in contrib



Steve Langasek wrote:

> If you build snd-gtk and snd-dmotif from the same source package, then
> all of the packages must go into contrib: a source package in main can
> also not build-depend on packages outside of main.  The practical
> reason for this is that Debian's autobuilders are not guaranteed to
> have non-free in their apt sources list, and that main and contrib are
> partitioned in the archive.

Ok, this is not the case. I build them from different sources, so that
the GTK+ version can stay in main.

> If you create separate source packages, one for main (gtk) and one for
> contrib (dmotif), you can arrange the dependencies however you please,
> so long as every package you upload to main can have its dependencies
> (and recommendations) satisfied by other packages in main.

If that's true then I can let things be as they are. Although I also
like the snd-gui - virtual package approach :-)


regards, Stefan

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