Hi there! BTW, Joost, it seems that for the BugSprint [1] you got quite a nasty bug, sorry :-D On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:08:03 +0100, Steffen Joeris wrote: > severity 449497 important Thanks to Steffen for the downgrade. To everyone else: please don't change the severity anymore: while it can be less than important [2], it's *anyway* not more than that. > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:40:34 pm Joost Yervante Damad wrote: >> Hi Luca, >> >> > [3] not that I checked with such printers, I'm only in touch with one >> > that needs a non-free firmware >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#15 >> >> So you don't think that your usage of the package is more "contrib" >> then "main"? No, foo2zjs as it's *in* Debian [3] is OK for main. >> Personally I find it a rather "grey" unclear situation. It seems the >> package can be used without any external files, yet in practice, for a lot >> of people it is only usable with external files.. It doesn't matter how many people needs external files to fully use foo2zjs: if only one person can use it without, then everything which is completely DFSG-free *must* be in main. >> Since the package is currently lives in main, I personally can live with >> how it is currently... the bug submitter seems to think differently >> though... >> >> Bottom line is, that dependant on the hardware ,the package as it lives in >> main is usable or NOT. This is another point, exactly like the firmware issues in the kernel: the Intel iwl3945 driver is not usable on my ThinkPad X60 [4] without the non-free firmware, yet the correct place for the driver is main. >> Maybe we should mark the bug lenny-ignore ;) > > I guess it would be up to the release team to set this tag. I added the d-release mailing list to the cc:. > Anyway, I am still not convinced that it is RC. The package works fine > for certain printers without any firmware. However, some need it, > which is clearly stated in the README.Debian file. Furthermore, we are > offering a GUI program and the upstream script to download the > firmware for the user's convenience. IMHO this does not justify the > move to contrib or non-free. Fully ACK. > Now I am lowering the severity of the bug to "important" (althought > I'd rather see it as wishlist). Fully ACK also for the latter. > If people still disagree, please bring it to the attention of the > technical committee, which can overrule my decision at any time. With my just-got foo2zjs maintainer hat on, in that case the technical committee should overrule the decision of two maintainers. Let's see what the Release Managers say. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://wiki.debian.org/BugSprint [2] "important: a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone"; this is exactly the current situation for foo2zjs [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=449497#63 [4] http://luca.pca.it/projects/ibm/x60_1706-gmg/
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