Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.0 Severity: normal Recently, a bug report was aimed at the tvtime package -- and we seem to have uncovered a section in which Debian Policy is not entirely clear.
Bug report #213512 suggested that we should Suggest libdscaler, which is in contrib, in tvtime, which is in main. However, Section 2.2.1 of the Debian Policy is unclear on this point. I quote: [packages in main] must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package) The literal interpretation of this that it is permissible, but I think it could be clarified further. It is currently plausible to interpret the enumeration of dependency fields in Section 2.2.1 as merely a clarifying example (i.e. "including, but not limited to"), rather than a complete list. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tanya 2.4.20 #1 m�n mar 31 19:30:02 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 -- no debconf information
