On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Who decides weather a non-US package goes in non-US/main, non-US/contrib or > non-US/non-free? Are there any guidelines available?
Yes, actually, the Debian Free Software Guidelines :) Software that is threatened by US crypto laws goes to non-US (and some other problems), but that doesn't mean that the software's licence doesn't matter. I'd say, look at it this way: first remove the goverment imposed restrictions from the package, and then look at the licence of the program. If it fails the DFSG, it goes to non-US/non-free, otherwise, it goes into non-US/main (or if it depends on software in non-US/non-free or just non-free, it goes into contrib). > Now when I build that package I have to edit debian/control as a porter > otherwise the port will not be included until the maintainer edits > debian/control? > And when I edit it, I'll have to find out myself in which section the > package will go, ie by locating the source/i386-bin package on the > non-US server? > Maybe all non-US packages should be repacked... I suggest filing bugs against the packages that don't follow the correct procedure. The change is really trivial (it involves reading the licence - yes, that can be hard, but we all had to do it for other packages). -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
