On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 08:55:01AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 12 août 2017 06:29 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" <wijnen@debian.org> : > > > That is a disservice to our users. While for many users this is true, those > > users will have contrib (and probably non-free) enabled in their sources.list. > > So moving the package to contrib doesn't change anything for them. The only > > people who see a difference are the ones who asked not to see this kind of > > software, and they will no longer see it. That is a great outcome, not > > something to get upset about. > > By default, contrib and non-free repositories are not enabled. They are > also unsupported from the security team. They are not part of > Debian. They are an additional service provided to users requesting it > specifically. Your argument seems to be: Debian cares about free software. Therefore, Debian does not enable contrib and non-free by default. Therefore, users may not see non-free related software. This is a problem. Let's fix it by pushing that software into main anyway. In other words: We care about free software, therefore we should put non-free (related) software in main. What? If you believe it is a problem that our users don't have access to the software in contrib by default, then propose to fix that. The obvious way to do that would be by enabling contrib by default, not by moving software that belongs in contrib into main. Another solution for those users is to install one of our many derivatives, most of which don't care about non-free software like we do. > Debian is about free software. There is nothing in DFSG about "free > services". How do you know if a service is implemented with free > software or not? Amazon S3 could be free software, but only distributed > internally at Amazon. They can be, but that is irrelevant to this discussion. There is no question that the client is free software. If the server is not packaged in main, that means this free client software belongs in contrib. Whether that is because it is non-free or for some other reason does not matter. That is, unless you are claiming that their service is not "software". Are you? Thanks, Bas
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