Re: Can pstotext go into main?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> 
> > Having reread the policy manual, I've come to the conclusion that my
> > pstotext package probably should go into main instead of non-free.
> > 
> > pstotext requires ghostscript 3.33 or later to work for PostScript properly,
> > and 3.51 or later to work for PDF properly. As 3.33 is in main, I think it
> > can go into main, with 
> > 	Depends: gs
> > 	Recommends: gs-aladdin (>= 3.51) | gs (>= 3.51)
> > (note: there is no gs >= 3.51 yet, but since gs-aladdin 5 is available
> > upstream, I expect some non-free gs version will be available under the GPL
> > soon).
> 
> Sorry, but if neither gs-aladdin (>= 3.51) nor gs (>= 3.51) is in main
> currently, the package can't go into main itself. (Recommends are treated
> as Depends as of the new policy, since dselect seems to make not much
> difference between these two relations.)

Then, I assume Ray suggests this:

Depends: gs
Suggests: gs-aladdin (>= 3.51) | gs (>= 3.51)

Is it now OK?
I mean, the package apparently is usefull with just gs-3.33.
So cannot it go in main?


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