On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:01:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> So I promised to write up my position on this. Sorry it's taken so
> long.
Thanks for putting this together. I've merged it with Stefano's
comments and pushed it to the debian-ctte repository [1].
I suggest that we proceed to a vote
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:50:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Yes, this is the main comment I have when reconciling Ian's version with
> my option B. I suspect - without having checked - that what happened is
> not so much that Ian intentionally dropped this, but that he took a part
> of my orig
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:44:04PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:01:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 8. The Technical Committee resolves that alternative dependencies of
> > the form "Depends: package-in-main | package-in-non-free"
> > constitute a non-
On 06/29/2013 11:43, Andreas Barth wrote:
> However, for recommends there might be cases where this is not
> possible (because there are only non-main-packages), and this case is
> not considered RC right now. This is the more interessting point for
> me.
A package in main recommending a package i
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > 9. When it is necessary to provide a reference in a Depends or
> > Recommends from main to non-free, this should be done via a
> > neutrally named virtual package. When depending on such a virtual
> > package, other
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [130629 09:23]:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:01:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 8. The Technical Committee resolves that alternative dependencies of
> > the form "Depends: package-in-main | package-in-non-free"
> > constitute a non-release-criti
Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#681419: Alternative main->non-free dependencies text"):
> So I promised to write up my position on this. Sorry it's taken so
> long.
Oh, it looks like I wrote that in the wrong MUA. It should have come
from this address. Please don't reply
So I promised to write up my position on this. Sorry it's taken so
long.
Firstly, I think it's very disingenous to say that putting
"Recommends: foo | bar" is not a recommendation by Debian of bar.
Mentioning in a positive way such specific non-free software is
clearly an endorsement, no matter
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