On 08/08/11 21:59, Vincent Cheng wrote: > [Adding Dererk, my original sponsor, to cc: for his input] > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Vincent Bernat <ber...@luffy.cx> wrote: >> I am pretty sorry but providing a binary package that does not depend on >> nvidia blob does not make conky allowed to be in main. Policy 2.2.1 >> states that a package in main "must not require a package outside of >> main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a >> "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main >> package)". >> >> Therefore, conky should be moved back into contrib. > I was worried that this would be the case, which was why I originally > planned on uploading conky as two separate source packages (see my > earlier reply at [1] for my rationale), but my sponsor convinced me > that this was unnecessary and not preferable, since it would result in > two source packages that would be exactly the same. and that it's > still possible for a source package in main to build-depend on contrib > components and produce binary packages for main. I guess it is indeed > possible since the buildds haven't been complaining about > uninstallable build dependencies...but if it violates Policy, this > shouldn't be at all possible and needs to be fixed. > Although It might appear in the first sight that it's against the policy, a further look around shows a different scenario. The main packages themselves , conky-cli and conky-std, do not depend in any way on contrib ones, opposite to conky-all.
The tricky part for the policy is that the _source_ package is the one that requires a contrib package to build all their binary ones, and that's not specified in any part. Moreover, and not to judge by my misguided daemons, I personally asked one FTP-Master on this, and his answer was crystal clean, word by word quoting: "We are going to call you names, but it's OK. There are a few package on that situation and It's better this way". Cheers, Dererk -- BOFH excuse #28: CPU radiator broken
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