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Re: gnome-apt screenshot, more questions



On Nov 26, Havoc Pennington decided to present us with:
> 
> Why are some packages in simply 'contrib' and others are in
> 'contrib/admin' or the like?

The old convention, up to before hamm, was that 'contrib' and
'non-free' were to be treated like sections. So those are either
old packages, or packages where this hasn't been corrected (bug).

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