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Re: "purity" package

On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:

> I searched for an email on debian/devel posting a notice to package
> this "program" for Debian, but couldn't find it.

so?  there's lots of packages which have been packaged without any
'intention to package' announcement.

> I hope the project is not following a policy that anyone can package 
> anything that is freely distributable _in the name of the Debian project_
> without approval by the developers.

why not?  that's what it's always been so far.  why change that now?

> If not, then this package's presence in the distribution should at least
> be up for discussion now.  In that context, I believe that the critical
> criterion on which packages should be evaluated for inclusion in 
> the Debian distribution is the extent to which they serve the project's 
> stated goal to "provide a freely distributable, full-featured, Unix-like 
> operating system, based on the Linux kernel and the GNU development tools."  

why?  the criterion has always been:

	* is it free?
	* has anyone bothered to package it?

craig


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