Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
Raul Miller writes ("Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main"):
> On 2/21/06, Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > Was the open source windows driver ever available as a Debian
> > package ? It seems clear to me that anything which requires you to
> > install non-Debian stuff on your machine belongs in contrib, even if
> > the reason for the dependency being non-Debian is not non-freeness.
>
> I don't believe it was ever available as a Debian package.
>
> I'll also note that the "require" concept here gets interesting,
> in this context, as it's different from the concepts expressed in
> our packaging system.
Indeed. But, an unsatisfiable `Depends' is worse than an undocumented
dependency on a non-Debian package, but only because it's more
annoying during your system management.
Ian.
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