Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
> This particular wording allows for the non-free package to be first in
> the list of alternatives, which I think is clearly incorrect. The
> intent AIUI is to avoid installation of a package in main ever causing a
> non-free package to be pulled in automatically, regardless of whether
> non-free is enabled in sources.list.
> So I would instead suggest writing this as:
> unless this package is listed as a non-default alternative to a package in
> <em>main</em>
Good point. Here's updated wording, which starts from yours and tweaks it
a little bit to try to make it even more explicit.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 0b3c1a1..06c1fdc 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -476,9 +476,12 @@
<item>
must not require a package outside of <em>main</em>
for compilation or execution (thus, the package must
- not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or
- "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-<em>main</em>
- package),
+ not declare a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>, <tt>Depends</tt>,
+ <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Build-Depends</tt>,
+ or <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt> relationship on a
+ non-<em>main</em> package unless that package is only
+ listed as a non-default alternative for a package
+ in <em>main</em),
</item>
<item>
must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them,
--
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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