Re: Section for a new package

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:

> I have a package [1] (gh - Generic Haskell [2]) with a GPL licence
> which builds from generated sources with the tools available in
> main. The generated sources and the source from which it is
> generated are in the upstream tarball, but to get the generated
> sources from the source which is used to develop Generic Haskel you
> need tools not (yet) available in main.

The tools are not released at all, or released as free software, but
not in Debian?

> Where should the package go? Can it go in main or should it go in
> contrib?

In the current state, definitely not main. But you only have to
package aforementioned tools to get the package in main, so why not do
that?

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Lionel