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 f1c528ccc8a109b00dc9b292372f487c000d2282..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>