Control: severity -1 normal Am 13.12.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Package: avahi-ui-utils > Version: 0.7-3 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.2.1 > > avahi-ui-utils recommends vnc-viewer. > > vnc-viewer is a virtual package, which means it is not deterministic > which package will satisfy the recommendation. > > Moreover, vnc-viewer is provided by nonfree packages tightvnc-java and > vnc-java, which means those of our users enabling the _ability_ to > install nonfree packages (by including the nonfree suite) may > accidentally install nonfree packages they did not explicitly choose. > > Debian Policy includes the following requirement in §2.2.1: > >> must not require or recommend a package outside of main for >> compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a >> Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, >> or Build-Depends-Arch relationship on a non-main package unless that >> package is only listed as a non-default alternative for a package in >> main), > > Listing a virtual package as first choice of a Recommends violates > Policy §2.2.1, because that is not "a non-default alternative".
I don't read the policy this way, as this specific case is not covered. Please get clarification from the policy maintainers before raising the severity. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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