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

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On 7 Apr 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:

> 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.

I agree, although a better approach might be to have gs-aladdin show

Provides:  gs

Bob

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