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packaging (random) content in Debian



On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15.33, John Goerzen wrote:

> FWIW, I think other Free historical documents of great interest would be
> fine in Debian.

FWIW, I think not.

IMHO Debian should concentrate on providing a good system of packaged 
software.  Other projects (such as Wikiwhatever?) should concentrate on 
providing good content (offline versions of this content should be 
available, yes, and IIRC some work is starting in that area.)

Computer related content are a grey area.  IMHO only content that is closely 
relevant to Debian should be packaged.  As an example (disregarding 
licenses for now): many HOWTOs and (probably all) the manpages are good to 
have, while I think the linux gazette issues in main are superfluous.

This is not to say that there can't be a repository analogous to non-free, 
where free non-Debian related content can be provided, to be easily 
installed from a Debian system.  But as non-free, that wouldn't be part of 
Debian itself (and, since e.g. Wikipedia would be quite big, probably 
should have its own mirror infrastructure separate from Debian, too.)


greetings
-- vbi

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TODO: apt-get install signify

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