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Re: Relation with non-existing packages



Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> I disagree with this proposal.  Packages in contrib and non-free
> should be able to depend on packages that we can't or won't distribute
> for whatever reason.

Why would we want to define relations within Debian packages to packages
that don't exist as far as we are concerned?  I would at least like to
have those external packages listed somewhere, to prevent things like
having 4 different names for motif.

Wichert.

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