Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)
I was surprised that glimpse was not on my Debian CD, so I downloaded it
from the Debian web page. Until jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl told me it was
non-free.
What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it
was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the
cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in the
path.
Suggestions:
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The Debian web page's package search path does not hint to that:
http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/glimpse.html
Maybe there should be a non-free part of the path in there?
Maybe the displayed page background should be changed for contrib and
non-free packages to highlight that fact?
It's strange that a package dependence on a non-free package is very much
highlighted, but that the non-free package itself is not. For example, look
at contrib package `latex2html'. In bright red, we see that it depends
on non-free giftrans. However, click on giftrans and you'll see nowhere on
it's own page that it's non-free!
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