Re: rms on debian
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:38:09AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Those installer packages are still in contrib, though, not main. If
> > you don't want non-free software there's a good chance that you
> > won't want to include contrib in sources.list either.
>
> I've always had a problem with contrib. I'm not aware of the criteria
> for putting a package in contrib. But it doesn't seem very clear.
AFAIK, it's detailed here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s4.6.1
from the above link:
Packages in the contrib section have to comply with the DFSG, but may
fail other requirements. For instance, they may depend on non-free
packages.
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