Bug#37364: marked as done (software depending on non-US (was: Re: Hey! Why does everybody love flaming so much? [was: `pure']))
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Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 16:01:39 +0200
From: William Brioschi <capo@writeme.com>
To: "Marco d'Itri" <md@linux.it>
Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org, submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: software depending on non-US (was: Re: Hey! Why does everybody love flaming so much? [was: `pure'])
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In-Reply-To: <19990506193652.D1389@wonderland.linux.it>; from Marco d'Itri on Thu, May 06, 1999 at 07:36:52PM +0200
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 07:36:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >No. Contrib gets two types of packages: Those packages that require
> >linking with non-free software and those packages that cannot be built
> >from the source package without installing non-free software. In theory
> It also gets 100% free software depending on 100% free software but that
> happens to be distributed in non-US because of the moronic laws of your
> country.
> I had to upload c-nocem to contrib and I HATE that.
>
> I'm opening a bug against the policy and I propose that those words in
> 2.1.3:
>
> "non-free", or "non-US"
>
> be replaced by the words:
>
> or "non-free"
This would not suffice. Quoting from 2.1.2:
In addition, the packages in "main"
* must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or
execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or
"Recommends" relationship on a non-main package),
Thus, a package depending on something in non-US couldn't go in main anyhow.
Excluding THE solution (eliminating non-US), the correct solution IMO would
be making US/non-US an orthogonal classification to main/contrib/non-free.
I.e. a main/US, main/non-US, contrib/US, etc.
Ciao, William
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