Re: Negative Summary of the Split Proposal

[Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>]

I'm seeing a variety of objections where people are assuming that
the debian web pages will not tell people how to access the non-free
distribution.

Rather than try to delve into the rhetoric, let me simply point out that
nothing prevents us from presenting both options on our web pages.
Likewise, we can have people distributing cdroms which just have main
as well as people distributing cdroms with contrib.

While I'm addressing this subject, I'd like to point out that the main
page has a link labeled "Download FTP" which doesn't address the more
general issue of downloading from the net (for example: no list of
aptable sources).  I suspect that this lack is the real issue which
people are trying to address.

If there really were a policy that this shouldn't be on the web site,
then perhaps it would be reasonable to require that apt include some
partial information in this direction... but a stable package can never
be as up-to-date as the web page (and we can presume that people who
would be using the net to install Debian have net access).  So if we do
have such a policy (I'm not aware of one), I think it's wrong.

-- 
Raul