Re: main, contrib, non-free

[Benjamin Cutler <cutler@cs.colostate.edu>]

Gerber van der Graaf wrote:

> I recently uploaded some packages (Libgpiv_0.3.1, Gpivtools_0.3.1 and
> Gpiv_0.2.1) to mentors.debian.net with dupload. It seemed that
> everything went fine. But to me surprise they have been put in the
> contrib repository, instead of main. How is the choice of repository
> controlled, automatically or by human intervention? As far as I do know,
> and which is also the intention, this software and all libraries it
> depends on is free and resident in the main repository. So it should be
> put in main, not?
>
> Will it affect the RFC process? If, so, may these packages be moved or
> re-uploaded to main?
>
> Thanks, Gerber
>
>  
As near as I can tell this is simply a quirk of the site. If your 
.changes file does not say contrib or non-free, then it will not end up 
there once it hits the official archives. Don't worry about where it 
ends up in m.d.n, as long as the packages can be retrieved.