Guy Maor writes ("Re: Overrides confusions"):
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> getty (really agetty) is required/base. The other is admin.
Right. mingetty is extra/admin now.
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> In the past, all foo-dev packages were put in devel. It should be
> policy that all foo-dev packages go in the same section as foo.
I've done this, except where the foo package is in base.
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> /home/Debian/ftp/private/project/obsolete.
`open' is here now.
Ian.