Re: How to check why a package is in contrib

2009-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:44:08PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : > > I was trying to check why a package was in contrib (jabref), and I could not > find a means to do that automatically. > > Could we add an automatic mechanism based on package description, for getting > the reason, like f

Re: How to check why a package is in contrib

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I would guess that one might expect a reason in changelog, first upload > to contrib, and copyright file. Also check http://nonfree.alioth.debian.org/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Descr

Re: How to check why a package is in contrib

2009-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES (30/07/2009): > I was trying to check why a package was in contrib (jabref), and I > could not find a means to do that automatically. > > Could we add an automatic mechanism based on package description, for > getting the reason, like for instance, why-contrib: reason > > It w

How to check why a package is in contrib

2009-07-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Hi, I was trying to check why a package was in contrib (jabref), and I could not find a means to do that automatically. Could we add an automatic mechanism based on package description, for getting the reason, like for instance, why-contrib: reason It will ease the move to main in case of for