Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
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- Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>, 353277@bugs.debian.org, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
- From: Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:17:11 +0000
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:36:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
> > The availability to do this is enough even if there are other
> > (possibly better) ways to do the same. One free driver _in_ Debian and
> > the package should stay in main.
> >
> > But does the cipe-source build or ship the windows driver for use with
> > ndiswraper? I doubt that.
> >
> > Which means you need some software (even if it is free) from outside
> > Debian for ndiswraper. That makes it contrib imho.
>
> Are there any free MSWord files in main ? No ? Then please move
> antiword and similar tools to contrib.
*points at abiword and openoffice.org*
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Brett Parker
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