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On 01-10-2004 10:44, Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:31:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: | |>[Adrian Bunk]
|>>In addition, 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), [cut] |>Both grub and dmidecode are in main, so in my view it should be OK to |>recommend both of them. The fact that they are missing on some archs |>does not make it a policy violation to recommend them. | | | I read your policy in a way that these things must be fulfilled on | all architectures.
And they are: The package does not declare a dependency on a non-main package.
If your interpretation was indeed the one to use, we should change the wording of policy into the following:
| thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or | "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main or non-existing package
Regards,
~ - Jonas
- -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
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