Re: lenny main contrib non-free

[Ronny Aasen <ronny@skolelinux.no>]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Holger Levsen]
>> in etch, Debian Edu only has a "local" category, while Debian 
>> has "main", "contrib" and "non-free". (Actually, they are not part of Debian 
>> but Debian provides infrastructure. Anyway...)
>>
>> For lenny, I propose we do the same for our lenny (and lenny-test). (And keep 
>> etch as it is.) 
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> The use of 'local' was forced on us by debian-cd, which refused to add
> extra packages that were not in the 'local' category.  If this
> limitation is no longer present, I am all for using more sensible
> categories.  And if the limitation is still there, I hope someone can
> get rid of it. :)
> 
> I would actually recommend it is left for lenny+1, as there are plenty
> of work to do and no need to fix what isn't broken at the moment. :)
> 
>> P.S.: This was triggered by the notion that there is no
>> flashplugin-nonfree package in lenny, nor planned for bpo nor
>> volatile (afaik). So I was thinking of uploading it to our repo, but
>> I didnt (and dont) like the idea of putting packages not suited for
>> Debian main into our main (heh!) repo.
> 
> Well, if debian-cd is still silly, I recommend you get used to the
> idea.  I had to, after spending weeks and weeks trying to get the CD
> building back in the woody days with a local 'main' category. :)
> 
> Hapy hacking,


local is still hardcoded many places in debian-cd. afraid we have to
live with it untill we are 100% assimilated

Ronny