On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:41:25PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free
> section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free
> section. The Debian project will cease active support of the non-free
> section. Clause 5 of the social contract is repealed.
Clause 5 also allows us to distribute contrib as well as non-free. Without
it, clause 1 ("we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free
software") would seem to require us to remove contrib as well as non-free.
Is contrib also to be removed?
If not, how are dependencies from contrib on non-free software to be
treated? Should the dependencies of contrib packages just be ignored
-- so that, eg, foo-contrib.deb in stable or testing might depend on a
version of libc6 only available in unstable or experimental? Or should
contrib packages not depend explicitly on non-free packages at all? Or
should something else happen?
Cheers,
aj
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