On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:15:28AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > la, 2004-01-24 kello 11:06, Mathieu Roy kirjoitti: > > > Putting in main a package whose only purpose is to install proprietary > > > software is making a joke of main. > > > It strikes me, however, that a generic tool for downloading and > > installing and upgrading various kinds of documents (including RFCs) > > might be useful. It would make it less necessary to include packages of > > the documents in Debian, which might be a win regardless of whether the > > packages are free or not. It is not clear that documents not related to > > software packaged in Debian is best distributed as a .deb. On the other > > hand, it's not clear it is a bad idea, either. > > Sort of like http://www.dewn.com/rfc/ (which is, ironically enough, > reported to be non-free)? Probably, this is not that difficult to code (and was asked in bug #74385). Happily enough, there is something like that in bug #116567. Nobody has cared to add it to the package make it a separate package or contact the author of the script you mentioned (rfc@dewn.com) to include it Debian. I distinctly remember reading of other alternatives when this was brought up in -devel, but, even if there weren't writing one from scratch shouldn't be that difficult, should it? Regards Javi
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