Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:26:38AM -0700, 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,
Does that allow to add dependencies on packages that exist only in non-Debian repositories
as 'non-default alternative' ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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