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Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org



On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 04:25:58PM +0000, Anselm Lingnau wrote:
> Where do we tell the users they should not be pragmatic? As it is, in

Well, in this proposal we're deliberately trying to separate main
and non-free onto separate hosts. The message is pretty clear.

> I agree with Shane that in my opinion hiding the non-free packages
> doesn't cut it. Will we call their maintainers `unofficial Debian
> maintainers' next? Their work is just as important for making Debian a
> well-rounded distribution as that of the maintainers of packages in
> `main', so it should not be moved off to some attic in the hope that
> nobody will find it there. It is not going to go away just because
> we stick our heads in the sand.

I agree.


Hamish
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