On 2016-10-15 at 18:06:52 -0500, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
You can install an entirely free system with no non-free components.
You can also install Debian without taking account of any recommends.
But the recommends and suggests fields are still listing nonfree software, which was the FSF's issue. Not accepting the suggestions or recommendations doesn't address the issue the FSF raised in Sullivan's DebConf talk.
Suggests, yes, but Recommends to software in non-free shouldn't be there as they are forbidden by the policy
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main
If you find one, please file a bug so that it can be removed (either because the Recommends wasn't really supposed to be there, or by moving the package to contrib, if it really needs non-free software to work)