On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: >... > In fact, I would consider it acceptable in general to move everything in > contrib to main as long as it each package was forced to be priority > extra until it was suitable for general-purpose use as packaged in main > (including any dependencies, of course). >...
If I understand it correctly you suggest to move e.g. the package below to main? I always thought that the reason for contrib was to make a place for free software that needs non-free software/data/... to run. If we move these packages to main this would mean to put software to main that is either not installable or that doesn't run without installing additional software/data/... The priority extra doesn't help that e.g. a user who wants to use only software from main will see the fact that some of the packages he tries to choose e.g. in dselect aren't installable. That's something I consider worse for our users than the current state with a contrib section for exactly these packages. <-- snip --> Priority: optional Section: contrib/web Installed-Size: 28 Maintainer: Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: netscape4.base Version: 1:4.77-2 Depends: navigator-smotif-477,netscape-java-477,netscape-base-4 ... Description: Meta package that depends on other packages This package depends on the real netscape packages, so as to make things easier for people to install. meta-package: yes <-- snip --> cu Adrian
