On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from > > > debian/main ? > > > > How should it handle it? > > Well, i would say that recomends and suggests from packages in the > debian distribution to packages in non-free are allowed, but not > depends, as it currently the case.
I was under the impression that we only allow Suggests: on non-free packages. > This is a problem though, since some see this as debian advertizing > non-free, or thighly tying this new non-free.org to debian, which some > find a hatefull thing. This might be true. However, it has nothing to do with either this GR or non-free.org. If Debian at large or the maintainers of main packages do not want to Suggest: non-free packages anymore, so be it. I believe this is a social issue, not a technical one. Giving the user the choice whether they want to see suggestions of non-free packages seems like a good idea in general to me, though. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html
