peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > By examining the repositories, a user can learn whether a package > is in main or contrib or non-free. Is there any other way to find > the category of a package? > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ shows that 3270-common is > non-free but doesn't show the category of shorewall. $ apt-cache policy shorewall shorewall: ... 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages