On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 03, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:So, contrib is _explicitly_ meant for software that does not meet the DFSG, not for random stuff that cannot be packaged for convenience or different issues.I am almost sure that when I joined the project contrib was also the place for sub-standard packages. While my memory could be faulty in some way since that was 20 years ago, I know that my first package was first uploaded to contrib because of technical reasons.
I vaguely remember that may have been true, but I also vaguely remember that there was a conscious decision that it was silly to distribute sub-standard packages...
Mike Stone