On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:53:44PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the > > distribution you should move them out from under "dists". > > ftp...debian.org/ > > debian/ # has infrastructure support > > dists/... # DFSG free > > not-dists/... # not DFSG free > > not-debian/ # no infrastructure support > > [1]/ > > ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/not-debian ?
ftp.debian.org/pub/debian ftp.debian.org/pub/debian-support > Having it outside of the debian/ hierarchy just causes problems for > mirrors. There would be one more `site' to mirror... or am I missing something. > For that matter, having it outside of dists/ just causes problems > for Apt, really. Technical, or aesthetic problems. > Compare, > > deb http://foo.debian.org/debian woody main add-on/contrib add-on/non-free > vs, ummm, > deb http://foo.debian.org/debian woody main > deb http://foo.debian.org/debian/not-dists/woody contrib/ non-free/ The first is cleaner, the second provides better separation; I guess it is a matter of which is more important to Debian. > It just seems better to state what stuff *is*, rather than what it's not. It is just a short placeholder that seems to capture the sentiment, :), a more positive name would be required. > > Since any change is unlikely to happen before Woody, why not discuss > > incorporating Hurd, BSD(?), whatever into the archive. e.g., > > Hurd's already incorporated: dists/unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386/* > (there's exactly one .deb in dists/unstable/non-free/binary-hurd-i386/, > btw :) Hmmm, ok. Thanks. - Bruce
