Re: ITP: TIP
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote:
>
> > I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the
> > availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they
> > already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and
> > that sounds fair enough. Any other?
>
> Since the pine package that is built by the pine396-src and pine396-diffs
> packages doesn't need the pico package (or any other external editor) in
> any way, I'd say such a Recommends: line would be evil.
Right. Why not simply say so in the package description?
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