The package in question was curl. Root of this discussion: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00059.html the messages supporting my opinion: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00074.html http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00076.html which I have also expressed here: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9908/msg00095.html but there was no more discussion after that, so perhaps it's a bit preposterous to call it a result or a consensus.
I'd rather not to dig the decision(?) referred in my post, but the problem seems to be a general one. I think this should be clarified somewhere. For that reason I also Cc: -policy. If this needs to be in BTS please forward it there. t.aa Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15. Nov 1999 18:07 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > iirc this exact situation was discussed rather recently with > > some other package, and the result was that there is one /main > > source archive. The division to '/us' and /non-us is not > > important, especially now when apt can hide it from the user. > > > > This would imply one source in /non-us and two binaries. > > > > Can't remember exact time or the package in question, however. > > Still it might be useful to browse through archive to see > > if anything turns up. > > I'm trying to find this discussion and not succeeding. Was it on > -mentors? > > I grepped for non-us in recent archives of -devel, -legal and > -mentors and didn't see anything like that. > > Thanks for any additional pointers (anything you can remember). > Peter > > > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri Nov 12, > 1999 8:03 PM > > > The latest upstream version of powstatd comes in two favours, > > > regular and one that use 128-bit TEA encryption for communication > > > between master and slave. > > > > > > Currently, the upstream author is producing two source archives > > > (but we are discussing this). The only difference is that one > > > doesn't include xtea.c and the other one does. I planned to have > > > my regular `powstatd' package supplemented by a new > > > `powstatd-crypt' package. > > > > > > Do I have to make two source packages? > > > > > > Or can I upload everything to non-us and produce two binary > > > packages (one for regular main and the other for non-us/main)? > > > I have the feeling this is not allowed because it makes the > > > source hard to find. Right? > > > > > > The irony is that xtea.c is freely available outside the US, does > > > not originate from the US, and has only _32_ lines of code! >
