Re: Relation with non-existing packages

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> > Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > Example: There is no pine.deb but a pinepgp package should be
> > > allowed to depend on it.
> > 
> > Okay, that sounds reasonable. How about only doing this for packages in
> > main?
> 
> Do you mean that a package in main could depend on a package outside main?
> That is against policy, AFAIK.

I think he meant exactly the opposite: That we only require that the
target package of a dependency or suggets exists when the package is in
main.

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