A practical question regarding the proposed GR
The fest spilled to /. and I was reading some of the comments there,
and two things come to mind:
* Would someone please care to explain on that /. thread that
removing non-free from the archives does not mean you can't install
non-free software on Debian systems?
* How exactly would this "no resources for non-free" policy would be
enforced? Jason (sorry if I'm putting words on your mouth) already
stated that he'll do whatever is necessary to wipe non-free from
the Debian archives and public resources. I just don't see how
having a "contrib" network prevents a user from using reportbug or
something similar and report a bug against a package that is not
distributed by us. Ok, that might be happening now (utah-glx comes
to mind) but the number of packages in this situation might sudenly
increase by 500. I just would like to know who's going to take the
responsibility of keeping things in order. I just don't see why
Debian (people) has to invest time in order to /not support/
something that is not part of the Debian archives anymore. This is
not an argument for or against the proposed GR, just a practical
question.
And something out of curiosity... will we still be using something we
don't distribute ourselves if this GR passes?
Marcelo
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