Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:53, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> > Suggests are ok, Recommends and Depends are not ok. >> > >> > If you disagree with this, please discuss it on -policy, it's not a >> > technical discussion. >> >> 1) Do you have a pointer that give that information in the debian policy? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main > > "...the packages 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), ..." > > Note, no mention of "Suggests".
No mention is not necessarily approval. It may be just something forgot. >> 2) Why the gimp cannot any longer save gif files without installing >> non-free software? > > See the description of the gimp1.x-nonfree packages (apt-cache show > <packagename>): > > "This package includes GIF support for The GNU Image Manipulation > Program. These files are not freely available; their use is disallowed > by the UNISYS patent on LZW compression in some countries. It is > possible that the patent has expired in your country of residence. See > the copyright file contained in this package for dates of expiration in > countries which are known to have this patent. Use at your own legal > risk." > > For more information, see http://burnallgifs.org/ So you confirm what I thought (yes, I checked this page before): - the support for GIF creation inside the main gimp package, in main, has been removed in favor of a package in non-free, that provide the same functionality (plus patented compression). I think this is a serious bug: the functionality of the free version has been lowered to promote patent emcumbered package. -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+