Dependency freeze and optional dependencies

[Michael Pyne]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:43:40AM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Should we allow new features that require optionally a new version of an 
> existing dependency?
> 
> e.g. Okular depends on libtsd 0.1 and now i want to add a feature that 
> optionally depends on libtsd 0.2, but if you have libtsd 0.1 it's all fine 
> (i.e. it compiles but you don't get the new feature).
> 
> Does that count as breaking the dependency freeze?

I think that should be OK, and not counted as breaking dependency
freeze.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne