Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:21:51AM -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> 
> Think about it this way.  Say the remote firmware files that getweb
> currently fetches were instead put in a package called
> foo2zjs-nonfree.  That package would (of course) have to be located in
> non-free, and any packages depending on that would need to be located
> in at least contrib, right?

Dear Michael,

having a foo2zjs-nonfree package would allow other packages that specifically
need the drivers downloaded by getweb to depend on it and make sure that if
they are installed, the drivers are present.  This is a typical contrib
or non-free situation.

In contrary, if the foo2zjs package allows to download non-free drivers
manually, and does not do it automatically at installation, and if no package
depending on foo2zjs need that getweb has been executed, then the requirement
that no Debian package depends on anything outside the main Debian archive is
satisfied.

I think that this helps to draw the line: to consider that what matters is not
whether a program can download non-free software or not, but whether the result
of the installation of a package is that non-free software has been installed.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan