On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:50:16PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > Why is it going to contrib? Last time I checked packages without > > source went in non-free, not contrib. > > Because source is in fact provided (it's in the iraf-common > package, actually, full binaries are in iraf-ibin and iraf-noaobin) -- > and in fact some of the source is used on-the-fly by the main program > - -- but it's a royal mess and very difficult get get to compile in a > single pass without a lot of manual intervention. There was no way I > was going to be able to write conformant Makefiles before the code > freeze, so I shifted it from main to contrib so I could get it in at > all.
Sorry, I'm not sure you have the right impression of contrib here. Contrib packages have to qualify the same standards as the main distribution, *except* that they may depend on non-free stuff. But the package requirements, the dfsg-compliance and so on are the same. Bye, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
