Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Would adding something like the following to section 2.3 be enough? > > Packages may have a relation with other packages through Pre-depends, > Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts and Replaces. If a package > declares such a releation to another package, that other package has > to exist in one of the sections of the same release. It can either be > a real package, a virtual package provided by another package or a > virtual package from the list of virtual packages. > > I'm not too happy about the wording though.
I disagree with this proposal. Packages in contrib and non-free should be able to depend on packages that we can't or won't distribute for whatever reason. Richard Braakman