On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:40:14AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Good point but (in the rest) I think you carried it to far.. to an extreme. > > Deliberately so, but still. Sometimes painting a horror picture can focus > attention - As I said at the bottom, I feared a rehash of the merits of > names debate. Understood.. > > I don't see that as part of the proposal.. any of it. Where would apt not > > have a comment section in the sources.list that said, for other packages... > > Indeed, it isn't, all those things fall under the category of > 'implementation details'. Ask the people involved, as I did, for their > feelings on the subject and that is a very real set of subsequent events. > You are asking why, I am saying that is how the people who are going to do > it have considered doing it, the proposal doesn't cover it so the various > teams in charge make the choices. And it's the choice of the maintainer, true. But since it's implementation details or -policy? We already knew that the archive split was to contentious to be solved by Manoj's policy method, but once settled, isn't -policy the place to hammer out the details? > > Why can the web site not say, "information on other packages not part of > > Debian" and point to non-free.d.o. Why does there have to be a seperate > > For that you'll have to ask RMS - he suggested that idea, I have no idea > if anyone intends to pick it up, but voting in a proposal like this is a > strong starting point for such things. I could be wrong, it's been a few months, but I think RMS accepted the link as above and didn't say anything about seperate FTPMasters or upload mechanisms when I talked to him about this at Linux World Expo. Maybe somebody else has more information...??? (I know what RMS wants in his heart-of-hearts might be different than what he asks for...) -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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