Re: Main depending on non-US/main
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:35:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> [on the topic of where should free software that can be distributed in
> the US, but Depends: on non-US software should go]
>
> > > > - non-US/main, because it is DFSG-free, yet depends on a non-US/main
> > > > package, and we should modify the policy wrt contrib, since we have
> > > > now split non-US
> > > This is good, if you can survive if the package doesn't get on every
> > > official Debian CD set.
> > My favourite, stresses freedom and keeps the archive consistent.
>
> Mine too. tkirc currently violates this (since ircii is in non-US/main). I
> don't think anything else does. And archive consistency is a Good Thing.
fsh is the only other example, which highly Recommends: ssh (and
depends on ssh | rsh-client | ssh-socks | ssh2, so essentially depends
on ssh if you don't have or wish to use rsh-client). An RC bug is
already filed against tkirc for this; I've just filed one against fsh.
I'll post a proposal soon.
Julian
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