Re: Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)
You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the
program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by
what getweb does.
that's why it is ok for most of the program to be in main. its just getweb
that depends on non-free data.
this could easily be remedied by splitting getweb out of foo2zjs.
Or not, since there is no reason to do it.
the reason is that getweb depends on external/non-free files. this makes the
package unacceptable for inclusion in main (which is to consist of packages that
only depend on free data).
There is no dependency and we are talking about an installer (which is
contrib material, not non-free material) which is only an additional
component of the whole package. It is a completely different case.
this sounds like you agree that getweb should be in contrib.
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