On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 6 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about "Why was gs-aladdin removed as > "recommends" from magicfilter?" > > magicfilter 1.2-29 changed > > > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) | gs-aladdin > > > > to > > > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) > > > > Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far? > > > Just a guess...It was violating Debian Policy since magicfilter is > under "main" and gs-aladdin is under "non-free". > > 2.1.2. The main section > ----------------------- > > Every package in "main" must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free > Software Guidelines). > > In addition, the packages in "main" > => * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or > => execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or > => "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package), > * must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them, > * must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual.
Arggh! I see the point, but now each time I run dselect it tries to replace gs-aladdin with gs and I have to use Q to keep the status quo. Bob
