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Re: merge non-free and contrib?

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> 
> > I suggest to merge `contrib' and `non-free' and call the new distribution
> > `non-free' as now. Thus, the new name can be interpreted of "not free
> > according to the DFSG" and the change does not produce much traffic for
> > our mirrors.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Any comments?
> 
> Yes:
> 
> I basically agree, but before to merge 'contrib' and 'non-free', I think
> there are many packages from 'contrib' that should be moved to
> 'project/orphaned'. The former policy was to drop orphaned/obsoleted
> packages in contrib, and many are still lying there... Examples:
> compress-package, npasswd-boulder,...

Ok. I think it's very clever to move the files from `contrib' to
`project/orphaned' where they are not easily accessable via dselect. This
way, we are more likely to find a new maintainer for them and the people
who really need them can install them with dpkg.

BTW, who is listed as maintainer in orphaned packages? Only 5 packages
have `Maintainer: (orphaned)' but I think there are lots more. I think it
would be good to explicitely mark those packages so that everyone knows to
handle these packages with care (or to adopt it :-).


Thanks,

Chris

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