Re: non-free removal GR and our position to it ...
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> Why would I?
>
> Yeah, you see that is the whole problem. This whole plan to remove
> non-free is highly dependent of the non-free package maintainer finding
> the time for putting up this non-free parallel infrastructure. Time we
> could be spending on more usefull things.
non-free maintainers could also spend their time on packaging free
software instead of non-free software :-)
> Also, it is a bit hypocrit to find it ok to have non-free back then when
> you needed netscape and acroread, but today that you don't need them
> anymore, you want to remove non-free without regard for the other people
> whose non-free need are not yet eliminated by equivalent free software.
I can bet that there are less and less people using non-free. Anyway, if I
needed a non-free software, I wouldn't mind grabbing a package from
another location than a debian.org machine. Really I don't see
any annoyance.
> And i cast a doubt on the quality of any such third party
> infrastructure.
What quality? The only missing part would be the BTS, which can be
easily installed elsewhere. The other parts of the infrastructure
are never used for non-free packages: as I said non-free packages
are _not_ autobuilt, so basicaly non-free in debian is a package
repository.
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Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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