On Fri, Mar 17 2006, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
MS == Manoj Srivastava [2006-3-16]
MS> Depends is too strong a relationship; if I have several machines in
MS> my LAN, I may only keep extensive documentation on one of them, and
MS> use NFS to share share-able directories. I would be annoyed if I was
MS> made to install loads of documentation on all machines.
This is a good technical point I agree with. I therefore think that
recommends would be appropriate. As per Debian policy 2.2.1, recommends
will still imply moving Emacs to contrib.
The release team has published a file which lists the release policy for
etch on <http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt>. This file states
Packages in main cannot require any software outside of main
for execution or compilation.
"Recommends:" lines do not count as requirements.
Thus, it seems that the emacs21 packages _can_ recommend the non-free
documentation in etch. It is still a policy violation, but not a serious
one; see bug #360610 for a similar issue.
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