Daniel Pocock wrote: >On 08/12/16 16:59, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> On 2016-12-08 13:08, Andreas Henriksson wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:41:38PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 08/12/16 13:35, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >>>> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> [...] >>>> >>>> I don't think that clearly addresses the case of alternative >>>> dependencies. >> >> It does when one of the alternatives doesn't exist in the archive. >> >>>> My packages do not "require" nagios3, although they will work with it >>>> if the user doesn't have Icinga. >>>> >>>> Maybe that clause could be extended to state that packages (may|may >>>> not) include alternative dependencies that are not in main, as long as >>>> at least one of the alternatives is in main. >>> >>> Not sure what Andrey is supposed to be quoting here, but see >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681419#275 >>> (Conclusion/ruling at the bottom of that post.) >> >> Andrey was quoting the section of policy that the TC ruling you mention >> applies to. >> >> Specifically there's no practical difference between >> "package-in-non-free | package-in-main" and "package-removed-from-debian >> | package-in-main" so far as acceptable dependencies for packages in >> main are concerned. >> > > Reading that entire resolution, it concludes: > > 6. The Technical Committee resolves that alternative dependencies of > the form "Depends: package-in-main | package-in-non-free" are > permissible in main, and do not constitute a violation of the > policy clause cited in point 1. > > 7. We nevertheless recommend that packages in main consider carefully > whether this might cause the inadvertent installation of non-free > packages due to conflicts, especially those with usage > restrictions. > > so I think that is suggesting my packages (ganglia-nagios-bridge and > syslog-nagios-bridge) can potentially continue to include nagios3 as a > permitted dependency as long as they also have at least one alternative > dependency (icinga) that is in main.
You can have nagios3 as an alternative, but not as the first alternative.
