Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
> 
> It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
> "widely". This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
> should not put it on CDs yet.

Ah.  I had forgotten that.


> If a package being in "experimental" does not implicitly mean "not to be
> distributed in CDs", then we would need definitely another different
> "experimental" for gettext.

I'm not sure whether or not "experimental" is appropriate for gettext, then.
An alternative would be to place the packagen on a web site somewhere and
remove it from the Debian ftp site altogether.

Of course, there are also possibly (probably) non-free packages that sit in
project experimental and so we couldn't just include that directory as-is
anyway.  Perhaps including project/experimental isn't such a good idea
after all.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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