On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:05:49AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> you downgraded the severity of #360610 to `important'.  Could you
> explain why?  The Policy Manual says in section 2.2.1

>      In addition, the packages in _main_
>         * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or
>           execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends",
>           "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-_main_
>           package),

> so I thought that recommending non-free software (msttcorefonts is
> just an installer for the Microsoft truetype fonts; the fonts are not
> distributable) would be a serious bug.

It is a policy violation.  Not all policy violations are serious bugs.

Serious bugs are those defined at
<http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt>.

Cheers,
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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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