Subject: PGP depends.

From: Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:29:00 -0400 (EDT)

I bit the bullet today and decided to install and implement pgp. Searching
the packages files did not turn it up, but I was able to deduce that it
was therefore, in non-free. However the search turned up this information:

mailcrypt      -  depends: pgp
dchanges       -  recommends: pgp
elm and w3-el  -  suggests: pgp

Now, as it happens, I have also been reading the new Policy manual (BTW,
thank you Ian J. for this fine piece of work. It has been long needed and
I for one greatly appreciate your work) and it has some things to say
about this issue. In particular it says that packages that depend on
packages in non-free are to reside in contrib (or non-free if other
restictions apply). This makes it clear that mailcrypt should be in
contrib rather than the distribution proper. It isn't specific about those
packages that recommend or suggest a non-free package, but at least
recommend is strict enough to require special intervention with dselect in
order to install a package without it's recommends. The policy on these
conditions should be made more clear.

Thoughts?

Dwarf

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 01:40:08 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> In particular it says that packages that depend on
> restictions apply).

I've also been meaning to bring this up, but from another angle.
Previously, Ian, you've said that packages which depend on a non-free
package must be put in non-free, hence the current location.

The reasoning behind this is that a CD would typically have no non-free
packages.  Selecting mailcrypt would apparently confuse dselect as it
would not be able to find pgp.

I just wanted to confirm that dselect would not have problems with
moving mailcrypt and other such packages into contrib.

Guy