Re: deps on non-free [Bug#106427: printtool: versioned deps for gs]
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:27:12PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
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>> >On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:09PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
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>> >> GPG IS NOT IN MAIN! It's in Non-US/main!
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>> > NON-US/MAIN IS PART OF MAIN !!!!
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>> suuuuure....
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>> Policy, section 2.1.2
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>> 2.1.2 The main section
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>> Every package in main and non-US/main must comply with the DFSG
>> (Debian Free Software Guidelines).
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>Well, I'd say that supports my view: the "main" section is identical
>to the set of DFSG-compliant packages that don't require non-DFSG
>software.
You missed the part about non-US/main's ability to include main, but not
the reverse.
>Main is split into "US" and "non-US" parts simply for convenience of
>US-based ftp mirror admins and CD vendors.
You have a major hole in this: there were four sections at one time,
main, contrib, non-free, and non-US. Non-US got split into subsections a
couple of years ago. Originally, there was no non-US/main, simply non-US.
BTW, IIRC this is when the auto-pgp issue came to a head, thus auto-pgp
went into contrib BECAUSE IT DEPENDED ON NON-US. Not because it depended
on non-US/main, non-US/non-free, or even non-US/ask_somebody_who_cares.
I would like to go back a couple years with some of these revisionist
comments and drop them at the feet of those who wanted to split non-us.
That split was one of those ideas that the only proper way to see the
whole of the impact is in retrospect.
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