Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> For my part I would prefer to keep the current policy and use Provides
> for non-free software.
I think this would be worse from the perspective of not accidentally
getting non-free software. Isn't the package installed by dependency when
multiple packages Provide that package non-deterministic? Whereas if you
list the free dependency first, you always get it by default if it's
satisfiable.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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