Mark Brown wrote: > IIRC, it was this very package that prompted the last discussion about > setting up a data section. What came of that?
I got no reponses from the following post to debian-policy two weeks ago: To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org Subject: Data section accepted a while ago. What's next? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:42:51 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Accepted Amendments > > Data section (#38902) > * Consensus. > * Proposed on 3 Jun 1999 by Darren O. Benham; seconded by Peter S > Galbraith and Peter Makholm. > * "Since there is interest in packaging census data, maps, genome > data and other huge datasets I and since most people agreed that > dropping them in main or contrib is not a great idea, I propose > the creation of a data section to reside along side of main, > contrib and non-free." Includes rules about what goes in this > section. So what now? The ftp maintainers create the section and we start to upload packages for it? -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/