Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

On 2004-03-08 13:15:02 +0000 Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> > I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian.
> Really? Do you like low quality packages? Do you think the equivalent 
> of
> rpmfind.net (hurl!) would be an asset to Debian users?

There's no causal link between rpmfind.net and poor packaging. I hope 
the Debian community can respond to the challenge by supporting QA 
programmes, rather than its current ostrich approach of pretending 
there is no packages but Debian. Even things like the Bugs package 
header are a step ahead of rpm, aren't they?

> You can probably tell that I don't, and that's a big part of why
> I don't want non-free removed from ftp.debian.org yet.

Third party packages already exist, regardless of the GR.

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