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Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking



On Monday 19 July 2010 11:26:38 Russ Allbery wrote:
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 0b3c1a1..06c1fdc 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -476,9 +476,12 @@
>  	      <item>
>  		  must not require a package outside of <em>main</em>
>  		  for compilation or execution (thus, the package must
> -		  not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or
> -		  "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-<em>main</em>
> -		  package),
> +		  not declare a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>, <tt>Depends</tt>,
> +		  <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Build-Depends</tt>,
> +		  or <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt> relationship on a
> +		  non-<em>main</em> package unless that package is only
> +		  listed as a non-default alternative for a package
> +		  in <em>main</em),
>  	      </item>
>  	      <item>
>  		  must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them,

Seconded.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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