On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 14:27:32 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
The Debian Policy manual states in section 2.2.1:
In addition, the packages in main
...
* must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them...
I would argue Stardict is this buggy.
If that's the case, the first place to report it would be a RC bug
against the stardict package (and if the stardict maintainer downgrades
the severity of RC bugs in a way that is contrary to project consensus,
the group that can overrule them is the release team or the technical
committee).
IMO, Stardict could reasonably live on in contrib
contrib is held to the same quality standards as main (and non-free):
the only difference is that contrib packages may have non-free
dependencies. The two possibilities are that stardict is sufficiently
high-quality to be in main, or not sufficiently high-quality to be in
contrib either.
smcv
