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Bug#492406: Package which require to download non-free content should be in contrib



Daniel Dickinson <cshore@wightman.ca> writes:

> Package: debian-policy
> Subject: Packages which require to download non-free content should be  in
> contrib
>
> Packages like msttcorefonts cannot be installed without downloading
> content that would be in non-free, or cannot be included in debian at
> all, if packaged and should therefore be in contrib.

I'm guessing that you don't consider section 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to be
sufficiently clear on this?  To me, that's what "must not require a
package outside of main for compilation or execution" means, so I think
the language already covers this, but I may be too close to it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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