Bug#69229: PROPOSED 2000/08/16] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into non-US/{main,contrib}

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:25:28AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mike Markley 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. [...]

Seconded.