Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?

["Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org>]

***** RM => Raul Miller

RM> Personally, I have no objection to non-US packages being
RM> considered a part of Debian.  However, that doesn't relax the
RM> constraint that they're non-US.

RM> Just as standard packages can't depend on optional packages, main
RM> packages can't depend on non-US packages.  If you want your
RM> package to depend [or recommend] a non-US package it should also
RM> be put in non-US.

This makes sense, as long as non-US will be structured to distinguish
free packages from non-free ones.

RM> Also, it would be nice if non-US packages were organized the same
RM> was as the rest of debian [into non-free, contrib and main, with
RM> individual directories for each section].  I don't care if empty
RM> directories are never created, but that structure is useful and
RM> conveys some significant information.

I think this should be considered.

Thanks,

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Davide G. M. Salvetti - IW5DZC [JN53fr] - <http://salve.home.ml.org/>