[Pkg-netmeasure-discuss] Bug#840182: Bug#840182: flent recommends netperf, which is non-free

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Oct 9 11:18:39 UTC 2016


Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> writes:

> Package: flent
> Version: 0.15.0-1
> Severity: serious
>
> flent has netperf in Recommends. But netperf is non-free. As per policy §2.2.1,
> packages in main must not require or recommend packages outside main.

Would it be OK to demote it to 'Suggests'? Flent can run fine without
netperf, but it is needed to run most of the tests...

-Toke



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