Re: Ask yourself some questions
Peter Mathiasson <peter@mathiasson.nu> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:10:35PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> No, but I and probably Rémi too read Branden's remark as: Even if we
>> remove the package from non-free, the old locally installed copies of
>> these packages wil still be available. In this context his remark
>> makes sense, these old packages are worth nothing if nobody supports
>> them anymore.
>
> Since non-free is not Debian users should not expect any support for
> non-free packages anyway, it's just a bonus if it happens.
non-free packages are packaged by debian developpers. I'm not sure
they get the same level of policy checking (lintian),... as their free
counterparts, but I sure do expect the packagers to give them the same
level of attention.
If that's not the case, this should be clearly documented.
--
Rémi
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