From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:43:06 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Clarify the banned dependencies between main and non-main
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30daa4aab845a7972bff3f0e33994176bc912dc6;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

Clarify the banned dependencies between main and non-main

* Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
  allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
  relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
  alternative.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #587279)
---

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ce27639..fedb536 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     package.
   * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
     provide some examples.  (Closes: #175202)
+  * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
+    allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
+    relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
+    alternative.  Thanks, Raphael Geissert.  (Closes: #587279)
 
  -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
 
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 3e99099..9fe7158 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -476,9 +476,11 @@
 	      <item>
 		  must not require a package outside of <em>main</em>
 		  for compilation or execution (thus, the package must
-		  not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or
-		  "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-<em>main</em>
-		  package),
+		  not declare a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>, <tt>Depends</tt>,
+		  <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Build-Depends</tt>,
+		  or <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt> relationship on a
+		  non-<em>main</em> package unless a package
+		  in <em>main</em> is listed as an alternative),
 	      </item>
 	      <item>
 		  must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them,