On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > I was under the impression that the partitioning between debian/main
> > and non-US/main was only due to the archive's location in the US.
>
> Excellent observation of the obvious. And since nothing in main can depend
> on anything outside of main (non-US/main included), then the package
> should go into contrib.
But putting it in non-US/main would be equally legal: it only depends
on packages in main and non-US/main. Policy dates back to a time when
non-US was not split, and I would like to argue that putting it in
non-US/main makes a lot of logical sense.
Then again, it means that when people build CD images of (us/)main and
(us/)contrib, this package will be left out, and will only be
available on non-US CDs.
It's a bit of a pain, really. Unless we create a
main/non-US-dependent section for software dependent upon non-US/main?
It would make (us/)main non-self contained, but
main=us/main+non-us/main would be self-contained, and it would get the
software onto US CDs.
Any thoughts?
Julian
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