Re: non free IETF's RFC documents in .orig.tar.gz

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> But, since RFCs are available elsewhere always, it's easier to just not
> distribute them.  We get the stupid thing of having N different packages
> in debian that all put RFC 822 in /usr/share/doc.  Pointless.

> In my opinion, we should have a Policy statement that prohibits putting
> RFCs in /usr/share/doc, and we can have an rfc package that includes the
> ones that we can distribute and that people want.

Sure.  Not installing RFCs is easy.  What's harder is omitting them from
the upstream .orig.tar.gz files, as that isn't particularly "natural" to
do using the common packaging tools and techniques.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>