Add a reminder of Pre-Depends policy to §7.2 "Binary Dependencies"

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c708a18620a18bc14e9cdf19b4a7bd8fc8bce263..aa7f11bbc24020b1f1009ab6e121fe40680e03b8 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@
 
       </sect>
 
-      <sect>
+      <sect id="dependencies">
        <heading>Dependencies</heading>
 
        <p>
@@ -4774,6 +4774,13 @@ Build-Depends: foo [linux-any], bar [any-i386], baz [!linux-any]
                package.  It is best to avoid this situation if
                possible.
              </p>
+
+             <p>
+               You should not specify a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt> entry for a
+               package before this has been discussed on the
+               <tt>debian-devel</tt> mailing list and a consensus about
+               doing that has been reached.
+               See <ref id="dependencies">.
            </item>
          </taglist>
        </p>
@@ -8940,9 +8947,9 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
 
               <item>
                   If the window manager complies with <url
-                   id="http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec"
+                   id="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec"
                    name="The Window Manager Specification Project">,
-                  written by the <url id="http://www.freedesktop.org/"
+                  written by the <url id="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
                    name="Free Desktop Group">, add 40 points.
               </item>