Bug#492406: Package which require to download non-free content should be in contrib
On Fri, July 25, 2008 23:10, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Daniel Dickinson <cshore@wightman.ca> writes:
>> 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.
I think that aswell - and all such packages I know of including the
mentioned msttcorefonts already are in contrib so it seems to be clearly
understood by the present audience.
Thijs
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