On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter: > > There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go > > into the CD business providing support for packages in the main > > dist. > > > > The way it is, I can't say "Support for all of Debian's main dist". > > I don't know the answer but having non-doc (in the sense of > non-application-that-is-in-main-doc) stuff is bad. What if I package > the 3 CD set of US maps that is publicy available? That is about 1.8Gb > of sources plus 1.8Gb of .debs for about 3.6Gb of ftp space... and > nobody can tell me don't do that! > > What about having Debian be an OS+apps and have SPI found a *new* > association for the distribution of free *data*?
We are already doing that - the proposal on the policy list regarding a new, data section of the FTP server has passed. Hopefully, it will be implemented in practice soon. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
