Re: vavoom_1.32-1_i386.changes REJECTED
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:43:46PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Sorry to jump in, but "no unmet recommends in main" has been a release
> goal already back for the lenny release cycle. So while (IMHO) not
> worth to be rejected, that's still an rc bug to have an recommends on a
> package in contrib.
I hadn't through through the concrete ramifications of this, and I should
perhaps raise it on -devel or elsewhere, but that's pretty bad for doom-related
stuff.
Most if not all doom engines are DFSG free, but depend on game data. That can
be satisfied via freedoom which *is* DFSG free, but in all likelyhood the vast
majority of users are going to want to package up commercial data, which they
do so via game-data-packager.
GDP exists soley for this task and thus goes to contrib, despite itself being
entirely free software. (It could be used to package up free software as well
as non-free. Perhaps it should be moved to main?)
I feel not recommending GDP from main is doing a disservice to the majority of
our (doom package) users.
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Jon Dowland
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