Re: contrib

[Evan Prodromou <evan@wikitravel.org>]

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>>>>> "AS" == Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

    Me> So, am I correct in saying that the fate of the "contrib"
    Me> section is unspecified in the current GR?

    AS> Yes, except that the constraint requiring it to exist is
    AS> removed. The fate of contrib is a policy matter, since it's
    AS> essentially just a question of "Which packages are allowed to
    AS> have unsatisfied dependencies?". I expect it'll stay around
    AS> for a while yet.

OK. I guessed there were a few outcomes:

    * "non-free" in the GR was shorthand for "contrib and non-free"
    * the GR doesn't specify that, but we take out contrib so we don't
      have dangling dependencies
    * we leave in contrib, with dangling dependencies
    * contrib gets in incorporated into main, with dangling
      dependencies

Was it left out on purpose, so this decision could be made later?

~ESP

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