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 ?
Having it outside of the debian/ hierarchy just causes problems for
mirrors. For that matter, having it outside of dists/ just causes problems
for Apt, really.
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/
It just seems better to state what stuff *is*, rather than what it's not.
> 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 :)
Cheers,
aj
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