On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > That's all well and good, but obviously somebody (presumably somebody > important) somewhere disagrees, or it wouldn't have happened in the first > place. I myself don't really give a rip either way where the emulators end > up, I'm just pretty sure that my explanation summarizes the supposed > reasons behind it. What could be helpful is to find the first such emulator > that ended up in contrib and see if there was any discussion on the debian > lists prior to its inclusion in the archive. Programs don't get dumped in > contrib for no reason, and I admit the reasons emulators were in contrib > were not obvious to me at first (and I'm still not even sure I have it > right). I'm willing to bet there was some discussion on this years ago and > we just need to dig it out. I just don't really know where to start looking. When I was but an egg in the Debian Project, back in early 1998, I *asked* where xtrs should go. The consensus back then was contrib. -- G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been branden@debian.org | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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