Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb
Mark Brown wrote:
> IIRC, it was this very package that prompted the last discussion about
> setting up a data section. What came of that?
I got no reponses from the following post to debian-policy two
weeks ago:
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Data section accepted a while ago. What's next?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:42:51 -0400
From: Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
> Accepted Amendments
>
> Data section (#38902)
> * Consensus.
> * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S
> Galbraith and Peter Makholm.
> * "Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, genome
> data and other huge datasets I and since most people agreed that
> dropping them in main or contrib is not a great idea, I propose
> the creation of a data section to reside along side of main,
> contrib and non-free." Includes rules about what goes in this
> section.
So what now? The ftp maintainers create the section and we
start to upload packages for it?
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