Re: Relation with non-existing packages

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Would adding something like the following to section 2.3 be enough?
> 
>   Packages may have a relation with other packages through Pre-depends,
>   Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts and Replaces. If a package
>   declares such a releation to another package, that other package has
>   to exist in one of the sections of the same release. It can either be
>   a real package, a virtual package provided by another package or a
>   virtual package from the list of virtual packages.
> 
> I'm not too happy about the wording though.

I disagree with this proposal.  Packages in contrib and non-free
should be able to depend on packages that we can't or won't distribute
for whatever reason.

Richard Braakman