Re: Can pstotext go into main?
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > 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?
Yes.
(Of course, replacing "Recommends:" with "Suggests:" just to make the
package qualify for "main" is only allowed if the package works with out
the package, as here :-)
Thanks,
Chris
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