On Wed, Oct 08 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Do you see a particular problem with requiring that? >> >> Yes. I think main should remain self contained. This is the >> same reason we have a contrib section -- packages in contrib can not be >> built with the software contained in main. > > Depending on the requirements of ftp-master, which *seem* to think that > non-free were inappropriate for this kind of packages, my proposal tries > to address that by introducing a new archive section. > > I am aware that this is against our current technical policy. If my > proposal indeed adresses the concerns correct and we can implement it > technically, we'd need to adjust the policy as well.
You misunderstand. I think the current policy is correct; and main should always be self contained. If you put stuff into a different archive, you need to split the source packages too (like we do the gfdl docs). So I think we need to modify the proposal, not the policy. manoj -- Live and learn... Die and forget it all. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]