Bug#492406: Package which require to download non-free content should be in contrib

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:29:02PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Subject: Packages which require to download non-free content should be  
> in contrib
> 
> Packages like msttcorefonts cannot be installed without downloading  
> content that would be in non-free, or cannot be included in debian at  
> all, if packaged and should therefore be in contrib.

If they cannot be installed without downloading non-free content, then
certainly they depends on non-free content and does not belong in main:

This is covered by 2.2.1:
     In addition, the packages in _main_
        * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or
          execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends",
          "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-_main_
          package),

Personnally, I would argue that if a package sole content is a script to
download non-free content, then it should be in non-free. A package
should contains some real DFSG-free content to belong in contrib.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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