Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Raul Miller wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > Technical arguments why ndiswrapper should be in main:
> >
> > - availability to users with the default sources.list
> > - availability from within the installer
> > - availability from the unmodified Debian CD images
> >
> > Technical arguments why ndiswrapper should be in contrib: ?
> 
> "unmoified Debian CD images"?
> 
> It seems to me that everything in contrib should be distributed
> on CD.  This doesn't match existing practice -- perhaps because
> we've kept useful stuff out of contrib?

AFAIK, if it didn't change since when I was more active with debian-cd,
everything in contrib is on the CD _IF_ the dependencies can be
fullfilled (without non-free of course).

So technically most of contrib is not on CD (because it depends on
unavailable packages).

However I have to agree with Steve, if we want the installer to be able to
hook with ndiswrapper and not be bothered with the need to create
"modified CD images", we should definitely keep ndiswrapper in main simply
because contrib is not an official part of Debian (and since our current
policy is already to *not* have contrib in sources.list by default).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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