Re: Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> - Fri, Jan 21, 2005:
> I don't really think it's acceptable to move half of gnome into contrib.
> Fortunately, if the package dependencies of libhowl0 are accurate, this
> shouldn't be required; mdnsresponder isn't a dependency of libhowl0, only a
> recommends: which could in theory be weakened to a suggests:.
Err of course GNOME would have to rebuild gnomevfs and packages built
with the howl enabled gnomevfs.
I never meant to move GNOME in contrib!
> You indicated on IRC that the library functionality isn't very useful
> without the mdnsresponder package. I think it isn't very useful to a lot of
> users even *with* the mdnsresponder package, so I don't think we'd be lying
> to ourselves by weakening this to a suggests:.
I think howl is great and would really do some good to usability in
some programs. But sure, we lived without it in the past.
Bye,
--
Loïc Minier <lool@via.ecp.fr>
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