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Re: Snes9x and Quake in main



Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> According to policy, sections 2.1.2 - 2.1.4, a package goes in
> non-free if it isn't DFSG free and in contrib if it depends on a
> non-free package. Both snes9x and Quake are DFSG free, and
> neither depend on non-free packages. Therefore, both should be in
> main.

Read policy again. In particular this bit:

     Examples of packages which would be included in "contrib" are
        * free packages which require "contrib", "non-free", or "non-US"
          packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          compilation or execution,

> The point has been raised that neither of these packages are
> useful without non-free software. Even if this were true, policy
> says nothing about this, and i don't think it should. However, it
> isn't true. There are free data sets for Quake, and free ROMs for
> snes9x.

Package those things and the packages can move into main. As is, they
depend on "packages that are not in our archive at all" and thus they
belong in contrib.

-- 
see shy jo



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