Bug#770016: Clarify network access for building packages in main
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:24:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > I guess that it is implicit from the defintion of contrib that follows in 2.2.2:
> >
> > The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to work with
> > the Debian distribution, but which require software outside of the distribution
> > to either build or function.
> I have a feeling that "software" here is too narrow.
Well, contrib is also used when there is a requirement of *data* (be it game
assets or scientific datasets) external to Debian main, not just software.
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