Re: Bug#503814: foo2zjs
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [081101 10:53]:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > 2. As per constitution, we (the tech ctte) only makes decision as last
> > resort. So currently, the next step would be for anyone who disagrees
> > with this bug not being release critical to ask the release team to
> > review the decision and maybe overrule it.
>
> I'm not sure I'd want the release team to be able to stop the tech-ctte
> from being involved simply by not making a decision, so I'm not sure I
> agree with this precisely. But in the general case, yes, I'd rather see
> the release team making the call on this.
"Not making a decision" should be handled as a special kind of decision,
in the generic case. I however don't think that this is the case here.
> (2) is actually the more important issue, and that the stuff getting
> downloaded should probably be packaged for non-free and possibly volatile,
> in order to remove the external dependency. The package in main would
> then get a "Suggests: foo2zjs-nonfree-drivers", and if the script gets
> moved to contrib, that could then become "Suggests: foo2zjs-nf-d |
> foo2zj-nf-d-getter-script".
Or just the non-free-drivers could Enhance the main package.
Cheers,
Andi
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