I haven't read this list closely lately so this might have been
discussed or even proposed already. Anyway, shouldn't we make a few
modifications to the policy manual now that non-US is split in
main, contrib and non-free? As I see it the needed changes are:
Rename 2 to `2. The Debian archives'.
Remove the section non-us from the second pararaph.
Add a paragraph describing that we have two archives: the "main" archive
and the "non-US" archive.
2.1.2, The main section
change the first point to:
must not require a package outside of the "main" section of the
same archive for compilation or execution (thus, the package may not
declare a "Depends" or "Recommends" relationship on a non-main
package),
2.1.3, The contrib section
change the first point to:
free packages which require "contrib", "non-free" packages or packages
which are not in the same archive at all for compilation or execution.
2.1.4, the non-free section
Remove the second paragraph
2.1.5, The non-us server
remove this section
These changes nicely extend the main/contrib/non-free split to multiple
archives (the `main' archive and the `non-US' archive currently).
Wichert.
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