Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
> > indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
> > packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
> > should not be in main and should be moved to contrib. I therefore
>
> I don't think policy says that contrib is a dumping ground for
> crap packages. Can you point out which part to me please?
2.1.3. The contrib section
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Every package in "contrib" must comply with the DFSG.
Examples of packages which would be included in "contrib" are
* free packages which require "contrib", "non-free", or "non-US"
packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for
compilation or execution,
* wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free
programs,
---> * packages which we don't want to support because they are too
---> buggy, and
* packages which fail to meet some other policy requirements in a
serious way.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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