On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:50:38 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote: [...] > I am pretty sorry but providing a binary package that does not depend on > nvidia blob does not make conky allowed to be in main. Policy 2.2.1 > states that a package 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)".
Actually, I was suspecting that something did not really comply with Debian Policy... And I expressed some doubts in the bug log, indeed. I hope that this may be solved for the best. > > Therefore, conky should be moved back into contrib. No, please! I waited for so long to see conky back in main! [...] > It seems that nvidia.c could be provided into an alternate version that > uses nvidia-settings if installed. From: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Method_1_-_nvidia-settings > > $ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t > 41 > > If you can provide the name of other settings, I could come up with a > patch to solve this. I really hope that we can find a way to have conky (at least the conky-std and conky-cli binary packages) in main! If I understand correctly, you are proposing to use system calls to invoke the nvidia-settings command, if installed. That would turn the Build-Depends on nvidia-settings into a Suggests and let all binary packages built from the conky source package to be allowed in main. I hope this solution is viable. Thanks for proposing it! Now, let's hear what Vincent (Cheng) thinks about it. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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