Re: Visualboy Advance question.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:03:46PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> [040710 14:27]:
> > I don't think that the basis for a package's inclusion in main should be the
> > packaging in main of appropriate content. That would be a waste of archive
> > resources.
> >
> > The prerequisites for inclusion in main should merely be a reasonable belief
> > that the program is useful without recourse to anything non-free, and
> > inclusion of the basic set of dependencies for correct functioning. I
> > believe that fulfills our requirements under the social contract, while
> > minimising archive bloat.
>
> If there is any content packaged, than such a reasonablity becomes much
> more apperent. If there is no content and no easy way to create such
> documented, it is much harder to believe. Especially as some small
Certainly. But in no way should we be encouraging the fallacy that there
*must* be packaged free content before we will accept a consumer of said
content into the archive.
- Matt
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