RH-style contrib
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 06:30:49 -0500, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
> Then perhaps make 'contrib' more like the *gasp* 'contrib' of red hat, for
> non-official contributed .debs made by non-official debian developers...
> i.e. they don't want the full fledged debian developer status, but just
> want to contribute a particular version of an app.
I believe one of Debian's strengths is that we don't have a RH-style contrib
section. With a ".deb", users know they get quality. The advantage a
RH-style contrib section would bring are less than the disadvantage of
diluting the association of Debian packages with quality.
Ray
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