Re: weekly policy summary
***** MS => Manoj Srivastava
MS> There is a difference between unmet suggests and depends: in the
MS> former case, the packages install, and should work, in the latter
MS> case the packages are broken.
Yes, I do know.
However the point I was trying to make still remains, I think: if we
have not yet reached consensus on free packages suggesting non-free
ones, we should do so and close this issue. My vote is for free
packages not being allowed to reference non-free packages in any way,
neither Recommends or Depends nor Suggests.
BTW, I'd go even further: I'd suggest every free package maintainer
not to mention non-free software at all in our descriptions, scripts,
and so on. I'm a bit disappointed noting a lot of our packages out
there that talk about one commercial product or another in the Debian
diffs. This is maybe an extremist position, but I know I'm not the
only one thinking this way among debianers.
Since I don't remember if we have already settled this problem down,
my apologies to anybody wasting his/her time reading this message in
such an unfortunate case.
Regards,
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