Daniel Lintott <[email protected]> wrote:
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>Hi MOTU,
>
>I was wondering if anyone can shed light on the how the decision is
>made on whether to place a package in universe or multiverse?
>
>The package in question here is GNS3, which sits in the contrib
>section in Debian.
>
>When the package was first introduced into Debian it was placed into
>non-free but in 2011 was moved to contrib [1].
>
>Looking at [2], it would seem that the package should fit into universe
>

If it requires something non-free it goes in Multiverse.  Multiverse is the 
union of non-free and contrib in Debian.

Scott K


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