Hi Adam,
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:01:42PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> Without even looking at them, I can tell you the following:
>
> 1) *if* the packages comply with dist.html, they will _never_ get into
> potato.
Right, since potato has been released (and was frozen since january).
But I can't see a reason why it can't go into woody.
> 2) If they don't comply with dist.html, you will not be allowed to
> distribute them.
That's for sure.
> It's basically a lose/lose situation. If you want dist.html-compliant debs
> for your own use or for unofficial use, that's fine. But they will never go
> into debian, because they are in gross violation of debian's packaging
> policy, and also there are already source packages for these programs in
> debian.
I can't speak for Debian as a whole but I am sure that binary packages will
be accepted if we can distribute them without violating the copyright.
Greetings
Torsten
