Hello all,
Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all
the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This
information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In
particular:
* How many total dependencies are there? (We're only interested in
Depends or Recommends for this purpose, not Suggests.)
* Are all of those dependencies alternative dependencies of the form:
Depends: foo | foo-nonfree
or are there other cases? A list of the other cases would be very
interesting. (Some may just be bugs, but we may not have thought of
some other possible pattern.)
* Are any of these dependencies versioned? One of the things we're
evaluating is whether it would always be possible to replace those
dependencies with a straight dependency on foo, with foo-nonfree
Providing foo.
It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine,
whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a
non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a
dependency on foo | foo-nonfree and some packages conflict with foo but
not with foo-nonfree such that a dependency resolver may pull in
foo-nonfree in preference.
Thanks!
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