Re: non-free removal GR and our position to it ...
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:26:21PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
>
> > > The apt system is structured in such a way that you can use any
> > > repository you want. Splitting non-free out of debian will simply imply
> > > that debian machines wont host non-free packages anymore. We will
> > > probably see the creation of something like non-free-debian.org which
> > > will ship all those packages. All the users willing to use non-free
> > > packages will just have to add the relevant lines in their sources.list.
> >
> > And what about the BTS, and other developer infrastructures ?
>
> Can be installed on third party machines as well.
Yep, but by whom ? On whose third party machines, and with which
infrastructure ?
> > And in particular, does that mean that we will drop ocaml-doc,
> > ocaml-books-en and ocaml-books-fr ?
>
> Not really a problem. Again, it is a matter of moving every non-free
> stuff out of debian.org resources. It doesn't mean we can't setup
> something satisfactory elsewhere.
Do you volunteer for it then ?
> > > It's just a matter of standardizing a well-known repository of non-free
> > > packages and move it out of debian. Really.
> >
> > Yeah, except the burden will be on the developers of non-free stuff,
> > which have more interesting things to do with their time.
>
> We don't care for them.
Thanks,
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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