Re: the Packages web page [Re: Dissatisfied w/Debian? Make something 'pure'.]

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:04:01PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > > 
> > >                I've modified the above web page[2] a couple of days ago
> > > (incited by this flame^Odiscussion) to more clearly say that main is the
> > > official Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and that it contains only package
> s
> > > that are DFSG compliant.
> > 
> > It's very nice, but I was under the impression that Debian was
> > main + non-us/main.
> > 
> > The page now says non-us/main is _not_ part of Debian.
> > Is that right?
> 
> Currently, yes :( The policy proposal to change that has been accepted,
> we're just waiting for a new upload of debian-policy to officialize that.

Okay.  It also clicked that perhaps "Debian = main + non-us/main"
is true for frozen, but not for stable (?).

Thanks,
Peter