Re: some questions on multiple binaries per source

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

OK, two answers, two contradictory ones, I'm helped... :-)

So, conclusion is that the policy is not conclusive on this point, and 
I'm free to do like I feel better (anyway my sponsor will decide).

Thanks, Eric

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:38:40PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> >
> > > - more specific question: one of the additional packages is a plugin, 
> > > FreeMind itself "requires" Java, the plugin "requires" Java and 
> > > FreeMind. Am I supposed to write in the control file that the plugin 
> > > does depend on Java, if it's already depending on something that depend 
> > > on Java?
> >
> > Nope, Debian is sane like that.
>
>
> However, if the plugin itself uses Java, it should also depend on it
> directly. Consider (however unlikely) that FreeMind stopped using Java;
> if the plugin still must have Java itself independent of FreeMind, it
> should have its own dependency on it.
>
> Cheers,

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