Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Raul Miller wrote:
> Let's grant that any "moving to contrib" will only happing in unstable/testing
> (and future stable) releases of debian.
>
> Do you see a problem with moving these to contrib? After all, everything
Honestly I don't care enough about either those libs or ndiswrapper to
oppose to the move to contrib. But I've given my interpretation of the
policy and my rationale why they can/should be kept in main.
Now, you use that input how you want and you make up your own opinion.
> in conjunction with non-free software. Why do you think these other packages
> should not go in contrib?
Because they are DFSG-free, they have no explicit dependencies on a non-free
package and because they're not (installation) wrapper.
> > Here's the full parallel :
> >
> > The library is free, has no reverse depends in main, is thus only provided
> > for the user to compile and use software coming outside of Debian. We
> > can't assume anything about the software that the user will use.
>
> I disagree. We have to make assumptions about how software is normally
> used to define reasonable values for dpkg headers like Depends:
We're speaking of software of the user that is not packaged by us. I don't
see how a dpkg Depends field is relevant here.
Cheers,
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