Re: Relation with non-existing packages

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> 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?

Example: There is no pine.deb but a pinepgp package should be
allowed to depend on it.

I agree with Richard Braakman.

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