Re: Migration of non-free packages to testing

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:26:52PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Now, whether someone is willing to code the support in the buildds,
> > that's a different, mostly technical problem...
> 
> It's not "mostly technical".  There are surely many people who would
> do the task, but don't, because they aren't interested in supporting
> non-free.  That's a reasonable decision for them to make, even, I
> would say, praiseworthy.

There may also be people who would do the task. If they made patches to
support non-free in buildds in a reasonable manner, these patches should be
considered regardless of the fact they're there to support non-free.

Or some other arrangement should be made so that non-free packages aren't
discriminated against WRT the release process.

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