Re: contrib and non-free shouldn't be stated in the instructions
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:38:27AM -0700, macondo wrote:
> --- On Mon, 9/6/10, Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>
> > Subject: Re: contrib and non-free shouldn't be stated in the instructions
> > To: debian-backports@lists.debian.org
> > Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 1:55 PM
> > Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 à 19:42
> > +0200, Alexander Wirt a écrit :
> > > Julien Valroff schrieb am Monday, den 06. September
> > 2010:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > First, thanks to all the team for your work on
> > making backports service
> > > > an official package.
> > > >
> > > > I am wondering why you state contrib and non-free
> > sections in the user
> > > > instructions on backports.d.o
> > > >
> > > > imho, as an official service, it should only
> > state main.
> > > > Users could be mislead and understand non-free is
> > part of Debian, and
> > > > might install non-free software by inadvertance.
> >
> > > >
> > > > Maybe I am wrong somewhere, but would appreciate
> > your comments on this
> > > > subject.
> > > I removed contrib and non-free from the instructions.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, it looks much better ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Juli
>
> As one of the posters in the forum (forums.debian.net) said:
>
> "If you look in the pool you can see backports has contrib and non-free components[1] the same as debian[2] does and debian documentation often mentions non-free and contrib as well. So I don't see the issue..."
Having them available if not the same as actively/officially
recommending their use.
--
Sylvain
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