On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:18:29AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > Will alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian packages need to be reviewed? > > > > I think we still need some dummy packages. > > When I get up I will take a look at these packages. If I'm right at least the libc6-dev dummy package is still needed. > > > What is happening with contrib? > > > > I don't know about this. Contrib itself is free software, but depends > > on non-free software. I don't know if we have to build this, but IMHO > > we shouldn't build non-free. > > There are some very useful packages in contrib, dosemu and lyx being two > examples. debian-cd has managed to migrate from contrib (potato) to main > (woody) and there may be other similar packages that have not managed to > migrate. Lyx depends on a non-free library. I don't consider building and distribution that library morally right nor a good promotion for free software. The same counts for installer packages of non-free software. For packages which need to migrate we can just wait until they are migrated. I don't know why dosemu is in contrib. > While I would like to drop non-free, I don't think we can do it yet, but I > would say that it is at the bottom of the list. IMHO we just shouldn't build it for hurd-i386. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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