Re: Interpretation of policy 2.2.1
Hi Giovanni,
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:05:58PM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> Debian policy 2.2.1 specifies that packages in main "must not require a
> package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package
> must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends"
> relationship on a non-main package)". I'm not sure about the
> interpretation of this sentence: can a package in main depend against
> "package-in-main | package-not-in-main"?
Yes, a package may depend on package-in-main | package-not-in-main. There
are a number of packages in the archive that do this, and no reason to
consider this a bug since the intent of the first sentence is still
fulfilled.
The parenthetical should be revised to eliminate this confusion.
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