Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:05:29AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 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.
Not sure if you make a distinction between programs and documentation,
but Sven listed books.
> IMO, it looks like a dependency on non-free programs even if
> there is no such info in Depends/Recommends/Whatever.
Until the Social Contract gets amended, your feeling does not
reflect Debian opinion.
Anyway non-free software seems not to be included in tasks. IMO
it does still make sense to list these books, derived distros
may include non-free software if they want.
Denis
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