On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib. > > I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend > > on packages in non-US/main remain in non-US/main. > > Actually, there doesn't seem to be such a proposal; there just seems to > be your (accepted) proposal to make both main and non-US/main part of > the Debian distribution. > > So, let's fix that. > > The principle: packages that are DFSG-free, depend on packages in > non-US/main, but are otherwise candidates for main should go into > non-US/main also. That way they're still a part of the official > distribution, but they don't come up as uninstallables for the poor > deprived US folks. > > Here's a sample wording change. It incorporates the accepted change > from #62946. It's not entirely clear where contrib packages that don't > include crypto, but Depend: on software that does (from non-US/*) would > go in the following, probably.
Seconded! -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
