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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list
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Bob Ham |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list |
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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:55:16 +0000 |
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 18:06 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Putting these issues aside though, Debian recommends non-free software
> > explicitly by having packages whose Recommends or Suggests fields point
> > to packages from contrib or non-free.
>
> No, it doesn't. To quote the Debian policy manual: "In addition, the
> packages in main must not require or recommend a package outside of
> main for compilation or execution..."
It appears that the issue is not as cut and dry as that:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681419
This appears to me to be a discussion about whether Debian policy is
clarified to permit references that would, as I understand it, be
unacceptable under the FSF Guidelines.
> Perhaps you were thinking of Ubuntu? ;^)
No, I'm thinking of Debian.
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Bob Ham <address@hidden>
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