Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:23:02AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 3e99099..9fe7158 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -476,9 +476,11 @@
>  	      <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 a package
> +		  in <em>main</em> is listed as an alternative),
>  	      </item>
>  	      <item>
>  		  must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them,

Dear all,

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.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan