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Re: How many CDs in potato?



On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:25:28AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free?  I 
> > > thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but 
> > > requires something from outside of main (e.g., contrib or non-free).
> > 
> > A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib.
> 
> I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend
> on packages in non-US/main remain in non-US/main.

It was - no objections, but very little support either.  This caused the
proposal to be rejected.

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