[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Oct 03, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> So, contrib is _explicitly_ meant for software that does not meet the
>> DFSG, not for random stuff that cannot be packaged for convenience or
>> different issues.
>I am almost sure that when I joined the project contrib was also the
>place for sub-standard packages.
>While my memory could be faulty in some way since that was 20 years ago,
>I know that my first package was first uploaded to contrib because of
>technical reasons.

I vaguely remember that may have been true, but I also vaguely remember 
that there was a conscious decision that it was silly to distribute 
sub-standard packages...

Mike Stone