Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > And BTW, i was refering in me having to help setup non-free.org or some
> > other third party archive in order to be able to distribute my packages,
> > not to speak about BTS support and such.
> 
> Come on, please. On the one hand, you seem to connect the removal of the
> non-free section with a view on your packages alone, without considering
> the bigger picture (you always talk about *your* packages, *your*
> experiences with upstream, etc.). On the other hand, you tell us that
> you will be unable to distribute *your* packages once non-free vanishes?

Well, this is what the non-free removal proponent tell me i should do,
is it not ? 

> man dpkg-scanpackages, it's really not that hard if it is about your
> packages alone. Limited free webspace is quite abundant these days.

A, yes, naturally. From my account on people.debian.org for example ? 

If the non-free removal is voted, i will probably ask upstream to
distribute the source, would make more sense this way, and i guess they
will do it. Still, it will be more work for me over the current
status-quo, and you cannot deny it.

And, i wonder how dpkg-scanpackages will allow me BTS support.

> > Naturally, if tomorrow a fully working non-free.org would be setup, it
> > would be fine also, altough i have some misgiving about the oportunity
> > to maintain an officialized non-free.org not under the debian project's
> > control.
> 
> You seem to change your mind on that on a daily basis.

No. If there is a full working replacement non-free.org archive
available, then by all means let's move non-free to it, and forget about
this whole vote.

I still think that a non-free.org outside of debian's control is not a
good thing in the long run, but we will see. And if it is under debian's
control, how can you say that it doesn't waste debian ressources ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther