Bug#45318: marked as done ([ACCEPTED 07/10/1999] Amend contrib definition)
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From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
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Subject: [PROPOSAL] Ammend contrib definition
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Nothing seemed to come of the April debian-policy thread about contrib
[0], but there seemed to be a very loose consensus that section 2.1.3
(definition of "contrib") should be changed.
So I'd like to propose that:
] 2.1.3. The contrib section
] --------------------------
]=20
] Every package in "contrib" must comply with the DFSG.
]=20
] Examples of packages which would be included in "contrib" are
] * free packages which require "contrib", "non-free", or "non-US"
] packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for
] compilation or execution,
] * wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free
] programs,
] * packages which we don't want to support because they are too
] buggy, and
] * packages which fail to meet some other policy requirements in a
] serious way.
=2E..be changed to...
] 2.1.3. The contrib section
] --------------------------
]=20
] Every package in "contrib" must comply with the DFSG.
]=20
] Examples of packages which would be included in "contrib" are
] * free packages which require "contrib", "non-free", or "non-US"
] packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for
] compilation or execution, and
] * wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free
] programs.
That is, that the only consideration about whether a package should be
added to main, contrib or non-free be its licensing terms.
Packages that are `too buggy to support' or `fail to meet policy
requirements in a serious way' should either be fixed (ideally), or not
included in Debian at all.
Cheers,
aj
[0] See: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9904/msg00192.h=
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
These bugs have been fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0; changelog follows.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
Changes: debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
#45561, #42447, #48570)
* Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
* Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
* Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
directoried (closes: #41547)
* FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
* Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
* Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
* Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
* Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
* Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
* Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
* Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
package criteria (closes: #45318)
* Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
#41829)
* Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
* Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
* Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
* Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
* Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
* Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
* Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
#40766, #40767)
* Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
* Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
* packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
* The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
(closes: #17621)
* Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
#19179)
* Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
#41095)
* s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
* Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
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