On 6 Mar 2006, Anthony Towns said:
> Either way, I propose the following, call for a vote on it, and vote
> in favour:
>
> WHEREAS
>
> 1. The committee has been asked by Robert Millan, the submitter of
> Bug#353278 and a former developer, to overrule the decision by the
> maintainer of the ndiswrapper package, Andres Salomon, to include
> that package in the main component of the archive, and for it to be
> moved to the contrib component; and
>
> 2. The committee is empowered under section 6.1(4) of the
> constitution to
> overrule a maintainer by a 3:1 majority vote, and empowered under section
> 6.1(1) to decide on any matter of technical policy; and
>
> 3. The purpose of the ndiswrapper package is to provide an ABI
> layer
> on top of the Linux kernel that is compatible with the interface for
> Windows NDIS drivers, and that in order to provide this compatability
> layer, no non-free software is required; and
>
> 4. The primary use for this compatability layer is to run non-free
> Windows drivers for hardware not directly supported by Linux, though
> a very limited number of free drivers using the NDIS format also
> exist; and
>
> 5. The technical policy in this matter states that: (debian-policy
> 3.6.2.2, section 2.2.1)
>
> [...] packages in _main_
> * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or
> execution
>
> and: (debian-policy 3.6.2.2, section 2.2.2)
>
> Examples of packages which would be included in _contrib_ are:
> * free packages which require _contrib_, _non-free_ packages or
> packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or
> execution, and
> * wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free
> programs.
>
> THE COMMITTEE CONCLUDES THAT
>
> 6. It is appropriate for the committee to consider this request;
> and
>
> 7. The current ndiswrapper package does not require any non-free
> software at either compilation time or installation time to fulfill
> its designated purpose; and
>
> 8. As such the ndiswrapper package complies with current technical
> policy as regards to its suitability for main; and
>
> 9. If the ndiswrapper package come to depend on non-free software
> at
> compilation time or installation time, such as by prompting the user
> for a Windows driver CD, at that time the ndiswrapper package would
> be required to be moved to contrib.
>
> IN ADDITION
>
> 10. The committee endorses the decisions of the maintainer of
> ndiswrapper
> and the ftpmaster team in including the package in the main component
> as being in compliance with Debian technical policy; and
>
> 11. The committee endorses the existing policy on the suitability of
> packages
> for the main and contrib components; and
>
> 12. The committee offers its thanks to Robert Millan for raising the
> issue; to Wouter Verhelst and others for their input on the topic;
> and to Andres Salomon for his ongoing efforts in maintaining the
> ndiswrapper packages.
>
I vote in favour of this motion.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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