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[Scott Kitterman]

Daniel Lintott <daniel at serverb.co.uk> wrote:
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>Hi MOTU,
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>I was wondering if anyone can shed light on the how the decision is
>made on whether to place a package in universe or multiverse?
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>The package in question here is GNS3, which sits in the contrib
>section in Debian.
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>When the package was first introduced into Debian it was placed into
>non-free but in 2011 was moved to contrib [1].
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>Looking at [2], it would seem that the package should fit into universe
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If it requires something non-free it goes in Multiverse.  Multiverse is the union of non-free and contrib in Debian.

Scott K