Re: in or out of the distribution (Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free))
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:53:44PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the
> > distribution you should move them out from under "dists".
> > ftp...debian.org/
> > debian/ # has infrastructure support
> > dists/... # DFSG free
> > not-dists/... # not DFSG free
> > not-debian/ # no infrastructure support
> > [1]/
>
> ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/not-debian ?
ftp.debian.org/pub/debian
ftp.debian.org/pub/debian-support
> Having it outside of the debian/ hierarchy just causes problems for
> mirrors.
There would be one more `site' to mirror... or am I missing something.
> For that matter, having it outside of dists/ just causes problems
> for Apt, really.
Technical, or aesthetic problems.
> Compare,
>
> deb http://foo.debian.org/debian woody main add-on/contrib add-on/non-free
> vs, ummm,
> deb http://foo.debian.org/debian woody main
> deb http://foo.debian.org/debian/not-dists/woody contrib/ non-free/
The first is cleaner, the second provides better separation;
I guess it is a matter of which is more important to Debian.
> It just seems better to state what stuff *is*, rather than what it's not.
It is just a short placeholder that seems to capture the sentiment, :),
a more positive name would be required.
> > Since any change is unlikely to happen before Woody, why not discuss
> > incorporating Hurd, BSD(?), whatever into the archive. e.g.,
>
> Hurd's already incorporated: dists/unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386/*
> (there's exactly one .deb in dists/unstable/non-free/binary-hurd-i386/,
> btw :)
Hmmm, ok.
Thanks.
- Bruce
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