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Re: Clarifications



** On Jun 13, Hamish Moffatt scribbled:

> > Actually, some of these areas are dumping grounds for software that
> > specifically cannot meat that policy.  
> 
> _That_ is a bug in policy, IMHO. contrib should not be a dumping
> ground for poor quality packages. I have argued that on debian-devel
> in the past.
> 
> > > We could manage non-free separately but quality control would suffer.
> > 
> > People keep claiming this but nobody has yet shown why.
> 
> Namespace conflicts for one.
 - version conflicts
 - compliance with the *current* Debian Policy
 - *official* BTS
 - dependencies on packages in the Debian distribution

marek

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