Re: Are DFSG free package in non-us part of Debian?
***** AK => Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
>> I think we need not to guarantee it. We could simply ask the user
>> if it has non-US available and act accordingly in the dependencies
>> resolution part of our installation software.
AK> No. The Debian system should be fully installable from any
AK> reasonable complete source,. If non-US is regularly unavailable,
AK> this breaks.
I fail to see why. Just don't make non-US depending packages
standard. You know, we have a dependencies resolutions process, how
is it not possible to extend it to cope with a missing non-US?
I think that asking the user if she has a non-US CD or not it's
perfectly admissible.
Thanks,
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Davide G. M. Salvetti - IW5DZC [JN53fr] - <http://salve.home.ml.org/>
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