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Re: busybox in main



On 20001018T134523+1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> A busybox package was previously rejected because it was uninstable on
> an existing system.

This is not the whole story.  The package did not contain several
important files required by Debian Policy - including a copyright file.
It was my position then, and it is my position now, that this point
needs to be discussed in -policy (preferably resulting in an accepted
Policy amendment) before such packages can go in main.

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