Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?

[Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>]

Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> writes:

> > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) | gs-aladdin
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33)
> > 
> > Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far?
>      In addition, the packages in "main" 
> =>      * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or
> =>        execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or
> =>        "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package), 

If that is the reason then I think this either a bug in the policy or
a misinterpretation of it. It does not "require" it because the
recommends is  on "gs | gs-alladin". i.e. you can satisfy it with the
DFSG free version of gs.

Jan