On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:02:30PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Contrib is an official part of Debian,
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:33:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Only in the same sense that non-free is (ie, it's not part of the Debian > Distribution, but it's still distributed by the Debian project). > > See item 1 of the social contract ``..., but we will never make the system > depend on an item of non-free software.'' or item 5 ``We have created > "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software. The > software in these directories is not part of the Debian system, ...'' I stand corrected. However, I'll mention that contrib is safe to put on the official debian cdrom images (or dvd images, if we decide to go that way) while non-free is not (except by considering the issues on a case-by-case basis). -- Raul
