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Bug#882445: possible offensive packages in suggest



>
> If you split out (potentially) offensive or disturbing material into
> a separate package, you should usually mark this in the package name
> by adding "-offensive".  For example, "cowsay" vs
> "cowsay-offensive".  In this situation the "-offensive" package can
> be Suggested by the core package(s), but should not be Recommended
> or Depended on, so that it is not installed by default.
>

Those are two things:
 - the name
 - the depends


Don't bother on the name.
Allow  "-dark"  "-funny"  "-religion" and other suffixes.


Be strict on the dependencies. Proper use of

 - must
 - can
 - should
 - may

as in

} In this situation the "-suffix" package must be Suggested by the core
} package(s), but may not be Recommended or Depended on, so that it is
} not installed by default.



Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
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