On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:48:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Adrian Bunk > > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:26:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >... > > > I think it'd be preferable for the software to be in contrib (AFAIK > > > there's nothing here which is non-free?) > > >... > > > > When a package is not DFSG-free it is non-free. > > > > Only DFSG-free packages that depend on non-free software are allowed > > in contrib. > > from policy 2.2.2: > > The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software > outside of the distribution to either build or function. > > […] > > Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: > > free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages > which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, > and > > That sound like a pretty good match for those Javascript packages that > require grunt to build.
Where you placed the dots policy says: Every package in _contrib_ must comply with the DFSG. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed