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Re: Visualboy Advance question.



On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:27:33PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 06:05:24 -0500 Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > I think that DFSG-free emulators should be in main as long as they
> > > don't*depend* on non-free packages.  Usefulness is, IMHO, a
> > > completely different matter.
> > 
> > I don't think we should be putting useless software in our archive,
> > let alone in main.
> 
> Of course!
> 
> What I meant was: IMHO, usefulness should not be the parameter used to
> decide if one package must end up in main or in contrib.
> 
> Uselessness can be a reason for completely dropping the package and
> deciding to not distribute it. I would find it weird if uselessness were
> a reason for moving the package from main to contrib...

Useless in total => /dev/null
Useless without non-free components => contrib

- Matt



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