Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
On 1999/06/28, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
>
> > md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> > > It should be, but currently is not.
> > > I have been forced to put my c-nocem package in contrib because it
> > > depends on GnuPG.
> > > That means good free software depending on other good (but not
> > > exportable from the US) free software is forced to stay out of main.
> >
> > IMHO, the proper place for packages like that is not contrib, but
> > non-US/main.
>
> Why non-US? The software does not underly export restrictions. It
> should just go to main.
It would mean that main would no longer be self-supporting. If it were in
non-US/main, then the us-only main would be a self-supporting distribution, as
well as main + non-US/main.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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