On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:17:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That doesn't matter. To date, the policy has always been that a package > > must go in contrib if it has a dependency on something in non-free which > > has no *current* free implementation. > > Yes, that's right, but this refers to dependencies in the formal > sense, if I am not mistaken.
You are mistaken. It also applies if a package needs a piece of software
which isn't distributable by Debian, not even in non-free (for a
concrete example, see the java packages that can't be compiled by free
compilers)
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