Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> I also have mixed feelings about aligning Policy on current practices:
> on systems where the contrib and non-free archives are not enabled, this
> brings unavailable packages in the part of the dependancy graph that is
> supposed to be closed in stable releases. However, I admit that the
> wording of the release goal would allow to list unavailable packages as
> alternatives.
Note that we don't have a closed dependency graph anyway due to virtual
packages. See, for instance, the Recommends in openafs-client.
openafs-modules2 is not provided by any package in the archive; it's
provided by the Debian packages that are built from
openafs-modules-source.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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