On ons, 2010-05-12 at 09:59 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System > <ow...@bugs.debian.org> > That's why it's in contrib. From the > policy: > > > > Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: > > > > * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or > > packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or > > execution, > > But the problem is that it's uninstallable (from what I see, a package > can need another program to compile or execute, but not a > hard-dependency on an inexistent package). > Packages that need programs from outside our archive should at least > be installable, right?
No, I don't think so. Requiring for execution is in my mind exactly the same as "Depends". > Can't the dependency on oracle-instantclient-basic be downgraded to > recommends and a README.Debian be created, explaining that > oracle-instantclient-basic is needed? So at least the package can be > installed. Recommends implies that the package works without the other package in some situations, but that is not the case here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
