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Re: gated

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> 
> > But for Vitamin D to have packages which aren't in non-free/contrib
> > we are going to need dedicated machines like Debian has for bugs and
> > lists.
> 
> why?
> 
> other non-free packages are allowed to have bug-reports in the bug
> system.
> 
> other non-free packages are allowed to be discussed on debian-user and
> debian-devel etc.

Yes.. maybe it's just my misperception, but it seems quite inconsistent to
say something like gated can't even go in non-free, and be treated as a
normal non-free package.  From my understanding of the situation, gated is
relatively free, but not up to our definition (an excellent one, at that),
however there are plenty of packages that are far less free that are
supported as part of non-free.

> i do agree 100% that there should be a separation of main and non-free, and
> that the main distribution is what debian focuses on.

Exactly... I support the idea of dropping contrib and non-free from the
CD's, and from the 'official' distribution, but it's nice to have those
packages available under the umbrella of Debian ie, in the bug tracking
system and on the FTP sites.

> i don't agree that that means that we should ban non-free packages from
> the debian bug system, and IMO the only reason a .deb package should
> be excluded from the non-free tree is if it were illegal for it to be
> distributed from there for any reason.

I'll also take this opportunity to give a big thanks to Bruce for the work
he's done.  Some of the latest things have made me very proud to be taking
part in Debian.

David Welton   
davidw@efn.org  davidw@freenet.hut.fi  http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI!
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