From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:58:48 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Add a reminder of Pre-Depends policy to §7.2 "Binary Dependencies"
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4d0c06096f0ae2be672590fb3ab45c8a13af8d47;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

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

Section 3.5 says:

 You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this
 has been discussed on the debian-devel mailing list and a consensus
 about doing that has been reached.

Add a reminder of this to section 7.2, where the semantics of
Pre-Depends are discussed in more detail.

Requested-by: Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@fysast.uu.se>
Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/599944
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index f1c528c..aa7f11b 100644
--- 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>