Re: A section for commercial software?
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:
> Because they aren't provided by the OS (Debian in this case) itself,
> but by a third party.
No, but they are managed by the OS (dpkg in this case) itself.
It would be meaningless to distribute deb-packages that don't
intergrate with the rest of Debian. This includes placement in the
file hierarchy.
Otherwise nothing would have been won over just distributing as
tar-balls.
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