An interesting dependancy problem

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

It is policy that package that depend on non-free packages must go into
contrib.  However, what if a package depends on a virtual package that
is only provided by packages outside of "main"?

This came up in Bug#16652 where "javalex" depends upon "java-virtual-machine"
but that virtual package is only provided by "kaffe" which is in contrib. 

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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