Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
> On 1999/06/28, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
> >
> > > md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> > > > It should be, but currently is not.
> > > > I have been forced to put my c-nocem package in contrib because it
> > > > depends on GnuPG.
> > > > That means good free software depending on other good (but not
> > > > exportable from the US) free software is forced to stay out of main.
> > >
> > > IMHO, the proper place for packages like that is not contrib, but
> > > non-US/main.
> >
> > Why non-US? The software does not underly export restrictions. It
> > should just go to main.
>
> It would mean that main would no longer be self-supporting. If it were in
> non-US/main, then the us-only main would be a self-supporting distribution, as
> well as main + non-US/main.
non-US/main is part of main and without it you will not have all of
main. There is no point in sticking something to non-US just for a
depend, it wouldn't belong there.
MfG,
Goswin
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