This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said: > Contrib is effectively meant for wrapper on non-free stuff. But contrib is > really needed when the wrapper stuff is the *main purpose* of the package. > > In the case concerning us, we have 10 lines of DFSG-free code that can be > used to download non-free firmwares within a bigger DFSG-free package. > > For me it's no worse than putting the 10 lines of code in README.Debian, > it serves really the same purpose. > > So my vote is "keep that little wrapper in the main package, it doesn't > hurt". > > In fact, I go even further: I wish that the package use a low-priority > debconf question (defaulting to "do not download") to let the user execute > the wrapper at installation time. Of course, the question should warn the > user that he's about to download non-free stuff. Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main? This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-than-free holy wars, but it does seem like this script is exactly the sort of thing that contrib was designed for. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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