Re: Binary-only packages

To: ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Cc: bruce@pixar.com, meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Binary-only packages
From: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:47:02 -0500 (CDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] m0uRUAA-000BmHC@elo.ods.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] m0uRTSz-0002YDC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> from "Ian Jackson" at Jun 6, 96 02:02:00 am

Ian Jackson writes:
> contrib and non-free are not laid out like unstable, because they have
> so few packages.  contrib in particular is very small, and
> subdirectories would be pointless.
> 
> At the moment packages in contrib and non-free have section contrib
> and non-free, as appropriate, and usually priority extra.  Should we
> continue this policy ?  dselect supports a `contrib' priority, but we
> haven't used it.

This all makes sense to me.

David
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