Re: An interesting dependancy problem
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:03:50PM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> 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.
As long as there is no free working replacement available, I would consider
this virtual package dependency as a real dependency to contrib.
Otherwise we could change all dependencies of contrib packages to virtual
package dependencies...
Just my 2c,
Marcus
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