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   * Adopt [Swift API Design Guidelines](https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/)
   * Follow [SSWG Technical Best Practices](#technical-best-practices) when applicable.
   * Prefer to adopt code formatting tools and integrate them into the CI
+* Dependencies
+  * You are **not** required to only depend on packages in the incubation process
+  * Dependencies should only be included where necessary
+  * Package authors are responsible for ensuring the security of dependencies and must be able to fix any issues if dependency authors are unresponsive to security issues.
 
 ## Graduation Requirements
 
 * [Minimal Requirements](#minimal-requirements)
-* Have stable API (no pending/planned breaking API changes), with at least one published major release (e.g. 1.0.0)
+* Have stable API (no pending/planned breaking API changes before graduation), with at least one published major release (e.g. 1.0.0). Breaking changes are allowed following semantic versioning rules, but major versions should not be released regularly to aid adoption.
 * Support new GA versions of Swift within 30d
 * CI setup for two latest Swift.org recommended versions of Swift
 * CI setup for at least one of Swift.org recommended Linux distributions