On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:45:37PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > >due to its dependency on a package from non-us. Not contrib. > >non-us/main is part of Debian. auto-pgp was put in contrib due it's > >dependency on "gpg | pgp". Nowhere in policy is it stated that packages > >that depend on packages from non-us/main can not be part of Debian. > > Nor in fact does it say that contrib is not a part of Debian. You are very wrong! If I may quote from the very top of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright "The main and the non-US/main sections together form the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Packages in the other sections are not considered to be part of the Debian distribution, although we support their use and provide infrastructure for them (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists). This Debian Policy Manual applies to these packages as well." End quote. > >Therefore, if we follow this precident, then the printool package that > >is the subject of this thread must also go in contrib. > > Yes, it must go into either contrib or non-US/main, depending on the > wishes of the packager. Either will do nicely. No, there is one correct place for a package that is DFSG free and depends on DFSG compliant package from non-us/main: non-us/main. In the past, before the non-us archive split into main, contrib, and non-free, it would merely have gone in non-us. Contrib is not a part of Debian, as my quote from policy above indicates. If such a package is in contrib, it is in the wrong place. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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