On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Example: There is no pine.deb but a pinepgp package should be > > > allowed to depend on it. > > > > Okay, that sounds reasonable. How about only doing this for packages in > > main? > > Do you mean that a package in main could depend on a package outside main? > That is against policy, AFAIK.
I think he meant exactly the opposite: That we only require that the target package of a dependency or suggets exists when the package is in main. -- "a25a1542a812cc9b7c7d04588b9cf4f5" (a truly random sig)
