Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > I also have mixed feelings about aligning Policy on current practices: > on systems where the contrib and non-free archives are not enabled, this > brings unavailable packages in the part of the dependancy graph that is > supposed to be closed in stable releases. However, I admit that the > wording of the release goal would allow to list unavailable packages as > alternatives.
Note that we don't have a closed dependency graph anyway due to virtual packages. See, for instance, the Recommends in openafs-client. openafs-modules2 is not provided by any package in the archive; it's provided by the Debian packages that are built from openafs-modules-source. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hkxy6uq....@windlord.stanford.edu
