Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Do you have such a site lined up? If so, that would make your
> > GR far more palatable. If not, this is just a pie in the sky red herring.
>
> It sounds to me like you are saying that gobs of Debian developers
> think non-free is very very important, every sane person agrees, and
> yet, none of them would be able to locate any resources at all to make
> it a reality.
Been following the thread on and off, so excuse me if this has been
mentioned before.
Why can't the non-free archives be made available from the place they
are located now under a different name? I mean, "all" you would have
to do is provide an alias for the current official debian servers that
only provides non-free and block access non-free on the original. It
does not seem like a huge amount of work and would still send a fairly
clear signal, methinks.
Step-by-step
1) alias ftp.debian.org to non-free.debian.org
2) set up virtual hosting for FTP
3) rig the FTP configuration so that only the non-free parts are
available from non-free.debian.org
4) give people note about the upcoming change in 5) so they can tune
their sources.list
5) rig the FTP configuration so that non-free is no longer available
from ftp.debian.org
Of course, you'd also have to do this for all the other ways .debs can
be had from the server and repeat for all official debian mirrors.
Later you could even change it to a setup as is currently used for the
security updates: a single central non-free server and a big fat note
that mirroring it is not recommended ;-)
Just a thought,
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