On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:58:19PM -0400, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake forth: > > Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free? I > > thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but > > requires something from outside of main (e.g., contrib or non-free). > > A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib.
I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend on packages in non-US/main remain in non-US/main.