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Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)



barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

 
>> Since tasksel is mainly used for the debian-installer, I don't
>> see the point in adding non-free entries into it, since we
>> don't ship them.
>
> I for one ran tasksel more than once in the past, and would be very
> surprised if it is seldom used outside of d-i.  Moreover who said
> that tasksel was the only program reading these informations?
> Aptitude at least uses these fields.

I think that free programs shall not refer to non-free ones.
IMO, it looks like a dependency on non-free programs even if
there is no such info in Depends/Recommends/Whatever.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org



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