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On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:52:24AM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > > > This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and > > > indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that > > > packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards > > > should not be in main and should be moved to contrib. > > > > The "contrib" section should not be a dumpyard for buggy packages. > > project/experimenal seems to be the right place for those. > > > > The Policy should be changed. BTW there is already a proposal for this, see bug #45318. > Or a new section for packages removed from main due to bugs, but possibly > still desired by some people? It's safer to have a clear message that > "Debian considers these packages to contain too many bugs for inclusion in > the main distribution, but we are aware that there are some who want to > use these packages anyway." Something like this would eliminate any blame > if people use those buggy packages, and then have their systems crash or > go unstable, or get hacked. Any opinions? project/experimental is exactly what you described. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name