This one time, at band camp, Frank Küster said: > Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote: > > 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. > > This explicitly does *not* mention "Suggests". Who said anything about Suggests? I am not talking about inter-package dependencies. I am only talking about the script that downloads some non-free firmware. The rest of the package is of course fine for main, as far as I can tell from the conversation so far. > I rather think it's a technical question: Can a source package in main > produce one binary package that is installed in contrib, or is the > separation done only on the level of source packages? I don't know the answer to that myself, although I can't see why not, legally or ideologically, since contrib is defined as free in and of itself, but with missing and/or non-free dependencies. It shouldn't be impossible to have a source in main/binary in contrib arrangement, although maybe it is due to limitations of the archive software. Not that I'm set on forcing this (as yet nonexistant) _binary_ package into contrib. It's just that all the other download packages are moving there, and I thought it should be with it's friends. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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