Re: Should sauerbraten-wake6 be part of main?
I have nothing more to add on top of what Simon has already said, but
I wanted to address this specific point:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> wrote:
> I really would like to see all free software packages in main. Either
> the package complies with the Policy requirements or it does not.
That's a noble goal, but what I think would happen in reality if
contrib were to be abolished (as you seem to be implying...again,
correct me if I'm wrong) would be that all the packages in contrib
will just get moved into non-free.
In addition to defining "main", Policy 2.2.1 also places a certain set
of restrictions, i.e. that packages in main "must not be so buggy that
we refuse to support them". If you move all contrib packages into
main, they would for the most part become uninstallable (for users
with only main enabled in sources.list, i.e. the default
configuration) given that they depend on packages in non-free
(excluding outliers like flashplugin-nonfree that are in contrib even
though they do not strictly depend on a non-free package). By
definition, being uninstallable is a RC bug and hence is something
that we cannot support, so they'd all end up with RC bugs filed
against them and get moved to non-free at the end of the day. I doubt
that's what you're trying to achieve...
Regards,
Vincent
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