gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software
Package: gimp1.2
Version: 1.2.3-2.4
Severity: normal
Hi,
Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install
gimp1.2-nonfree
I find non-appropriate for a package in main to advertise for non-free
packages in non-free, which is theoretically not part of Debian -- a
package part of Debian should not assume that these packages exists, a
package part of Debian should not incitate users to install non-free
software.
I add this report to debian-devel in Cc because I suppose that it may
need a public debate.
Side note: the non-free package in question seems to ship only GIF
support. I thought that the patent on LZW was over.
But, worse, why can't the gimp no longer save GIF files, without the
LZW compression? Should I fill a bug against the gimp package?
It that due to the existence of a package in non-free providing full
gif support -- would be really astonishing (removing functionalities
that works feeely in the package in main and incitating to install
non-free stuff)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux ulysse 2.4.23-pre7 #6 mar oct 21 18:19:23 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages gimp1.2 depends on:
ii aalib1 1.4p5-18 ascii art library
ii libc6 2.3.2-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgimp1.2 1.2.3-2.4 Libraries necessary to run the GIM
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-16 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.4.2-16 The GNOME gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmpeg1 1.3.1-2.1 The MPEG library calls for movie s
ii libpng2 1.0.15-4 PNG library, older version - runti
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library
ii slang1 1.4.9-2 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii wget 1.9-1 retrieves files from the web
ii xlibs 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody2 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-16 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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Mathieu Roy
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