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On 01-10-2004 11:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: | 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
I withdraw my argument: I was blindly looking at the example instead of the actual rule.
~ - Jonas
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