Subject: Re: Binary-only packages

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 10:08 PDT

> Then I see no problem in moving xforms there. Shall I create a new package
> or do we just move it? Also do I have to add 'Section: contrib' to the
> control file, or does it remain 'Section: x11' with a contrib entry in teh
> changes file?

The file should go in contrib/binary-i386/x11 . I haven't looked at contrib
in a while - if it's not organized like "unstable", it probably should be.

Probably the section in the control file should remain x11.

	Bruce
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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 02:02 BST

> Probably the section in the control file should remain x11.

contrib and non-free are not laid out like unstable, because they have
so few packages.  contrib in particular is very small, and
subdirectories would be pointless.

At the moment packages in contrib and non-free have section contrib
and non-free, as appropriate, and usually priority extra.  Should we
continue this policy ?  dselect supports a `contrib' priority, but we
haven't used it.

Ian.

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 20:47:02 -0500 (CDT)

> continue this policy ?  dselect supports a `contrib' priority, but we

This all makes sense to me.

David
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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 21:19:34 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> continue this policy ?

Yes.

> dselect supports a `contrib' priority, but we
> haven't used it.

A contrib priority wouldn't communicate any additional information.
Furthermore it's reasonable for packages there to be optional.

Guy