Re: Another Non-Free Proposal
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:30:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:50:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why
> > > shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too?
> >
> > Another instance is still not as good. You couldn't reassign a bug from
> > a non-free package to a library in main that is depends on, for example.
>
> You could mark it forwarded. We do the same thing with Debian BTS bugs
> which are really about bugs in upstream software.
>
> I don't see what's so difficult here.
You could do that. That's nowhere near as good as what we have now
though.
So the list of disadvantages of removing non-free is growing while
the list of advantages remains small and almost unstated.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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