Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So why do we need to manage it and distribute it from our servers?
> Because that's the best way to maintain quality control. Add-on packages
> from the Debian project must meet the Debian project's policy, which
Actually, some of these areas are dumping grounds for software that
specifically cannot meat that policy.
> We could manage non-free separately but quality control would suffer.
People keep claiming this but nobody has yet shown why.
> Let's create the add-ons directory and move contrib and non-free
> in there, as Anthony proposed. (I already seconded that.) That's good
> enough to show it's not part of the distribution, but to ensure quality
> at the same time. At present we claim that non-free and
> contrib are not part of Debian but it sure looks like it on the FTP
> site, I'll agree.
I am not interested in merely a token gesture. A rename is not
sufficient.
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