[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If all packages that "Suggests:" hugs should explicitly name > > > "non-free/hugs" then they will have to change when hugs moves. > > > > Oh, I thought you were talking about "Enhances:".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Enhances:" has the same problem because it is "non-local" (as someone > already remarked). In a nutshell: the maintainer of "zip" has to keep > track of all the packages that are enhanced by "zip" ... that is all the > packages that today "Suggests:" zip. That's two instances of unzip, two versions of midnight commander, and one other package. Big deal. And, to put things in perspective: keeping track of those is trivial compared to the effort that would be involved in doing a complete rewrite of zip, to enable the use of that functionality as an official part of Debian. -- Raul
