On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:14:24PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > To the technical committee, if you rule that a package's minor binary's > libraries need not be declared as a Depends (I hope not), then please > address the same question with the added twist that the minor binary may > need a dependency to non-free (which is usually not allowed for a package > in main). I think this case should definately be forbidden as it's a > slippery slope. One would then only need to package non-free stuff > together with larger related free software in order to get into main > something that would not be allowed by itself. I think both should be forbidden. ELF objects, minor or major, must declare shared library dependencies as Depends. ELF objects, minor or major, that link against non-free shared libraries must not go into main. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk branden@debian.org | around on the Moon?" http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they wore heavy boots."
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