On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:42:53 -0500 Olek Wojnar wrote: > Could you please explain your rationale? The way I read Policy, I don't > see a problem. To clarify: the package is not installing via snap > because of a licensing issue that prohibits distribution (such as > Flash), that is just to prevent needless transitions in Debian [1].
Policy states that "the packages in main must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation or execution" so a dependency on the snap at install time is not allowed. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area > Nothing (except saving a LOT of work) prevents any of this from going > into main. Probably time to remove the package from Debian entirely then. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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