On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Daniel Borkmann
<borkm...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>> At first I thought that's a good idea for the long run, then I realized
>> they might put "geoip-database-contrib" into "contrib"
>> because it requires data outside "debian main".
>> 'http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html' says:
>> "None of the packages in the main archive area require software outside of
>> that area to function."
>>
>> I'm not a "debian-policy-specialist" so I don't know if this sentence is
>> not only for "software" but for "pure data" also.
Yes. For data also :)
> Well, to function the toolkit does not need this database, at least for the
> tools
> netsniff-ng, trafgen, ifpps, bpfc, curvetun. Only flowtop and astraceroute
> make use
> of it. But I'm not sure what policy applies in that case.
I'll look into issue and provide feedback here. We can't depends on
package outside main to remain in main, else netsniff-ng need to move
to contrib.
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